Re: [ICANN-EU] pooling plans and reality

["Griffini Giorgio" <grigio@mediapoint.it>]

M.Lehmann wrote
> In the beginning of this voting process quite a few people advertised
> (either on this list or on their personal pages) that they will step down
> (in favour of another candidate) or plan to pool with other candidate to
> make the election more useful.
> 
> So far I only know of one case where this has happened (myself), and
> wondered why so many people claimed to do that and didn't (or did
> they? Never heard of any!). So was this just a nice publicity gag, or are
> there really any poolings going on behind the scenes?
> 
> If so, please tell me, I am really interested!
> 

The major obstacle to allow 'fair' withdrawaI is that there is no way to show 
up a public comment by the candidate. 
It is not 'fair' because as candidate I don't know who are my endorsers and 
cannot pratically go everywhere I was campaigning to tell about my 
withdrawal (even if done for pooling or for other reasons). 
I made very early a proposal onto this list and forwarded it to Andrew 
McLaughlin to allow for a short comment to be added to withdrawal page but 
I still have no "yes/no" answers (I just was told that it has been routed to 
Election Committee). 
On my side, without such kind 'withdrawal comment',  I feel uncomfortable to 
withdraw with no reasonable way to explain why in respect of people who 
endorsed me.

Best regards
Giorgio Griffini