Re: [ICANN-EU] Independent support for Jeanette Hofmann

[Vittorio Bertola <vb@vitaminic.net>]

On Mon, 28 Aug 2000 10:46:39 +0200, you wrote:

>> What if the national registries for 3-4 (or more) major European
>> countries do not pay their ICANN fee? Do you think that their
>
>It is very very difficult to get 3-4 major european registries to boycott
>ICANN.

Are you sure? I fear that the "country representation" issue could be used
by an excuse also by those who would like the whole At Large concept to be
killed, and ICANN to be only ruled by the industry. I know that many people
in the national registries and in the ISP-telco companies that surround them
are supporting this process and understood that without a strong and
credible user representation ICANN will simply fail and disappear. But I
guess that many would like to oppose the process and say something like "we
will never support ICANN, since it is ruled by people who were chosen with
such a weird and unrepresentative method" - and this will happen more easily
if the elected director will be an independent candidate. I think that this
is the reason why ICANN tried to limit as much as possible the chances for
independent candidates in Europe.

We, as supporters of the At Large membership, have to prevent such arguments
to be credible, and this is why such an unbalance should be perceived as a
big problem by anyone here, German or not. I'm not sure what a possible
solution could be, but I've already proposed one - a semi-official At Large
council, however chosen, to back the Director and give an
as-much-official-as-possible representation to anyone. This would really
help ICANN to survive in Europe, don't you think?
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