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[ICANN-EU] Re: rephrasing header
Dear Mr Teernstra,
Thank you very much for your response.
One will never earn the respect of others if he/she
does not respect his/herself. Yes, the respect from
others can only be earned. There is no other way.
When I made my comment I was not asking for
respect for myself or for my ego but for ALL candidates.
Now, my answers to your questions:
1.How are you going to promote the representation of Individuals in the
DNSO? Are you going to actively support the admission of a separate
constituency for this group?
I believe that "organisms" like the one the individuals under your
guidance have formed are a very positive thing and deserve official
recognition, especially by entities, like the DNSO. If I ever get to a
position capable of speaking and voting inside those entities that
decide about the recognition of such organisms I will certainly favour
the official recognition of self-organized organisms of individuals with
direct interest in the naming procedures, if some minimum criteria
of true representativeness, of structure, and of logical (or legal) interest
are fulfilled (that idno seems to fulfil).
2. What are you proposing to do about further balancing the DNSO's
representativeness?
The DNSO specifically but also ICANN will be really positively
affected if the at large membership gets some structure, and the top
entities of that structure have an official word. This structure can
exist for some time in parallel and in close cooperation with the
directors, aiming in a stronger presence and influence as time
passes. This answer may sound vague, but you must agree that
the fluidity of the "at large experiment" is so strong that is capable
of bringing the best or the worst to the future of organizations
like ICANN or DNSO.
3. What specific checks do you propose on the powers of the Names
Council?
This answer is closely linked to what I said in the previous one.
I cannot say more now on this specific subject. It seems to
me that more "democratisation" is needed, but I learned recently
that this is a dangerous word to say when speaking about
technical matters (!). Please see in this respect my ideas here:
http://users.otenet.gr/~kchas/icannmail.htm#Fair5
4. Why don't you want to get paid?
Wow! What does this reminds me! My first email in fitug.de list
where I talked about everything, was severely attacked on only
one issue related to my financing by Thomas and Andreas. You may
see both my thesis, and their attacks (with no spitefulness and well
argued attacks, I have to admit) here:
http://users.otenet.gr/~kchas/icannmail.htm#Self0
In brief I said that I expect some payment (for normal expenses),
I said that If elected I will promote payment for the directors, I
said that currently I have no means to support extensive
travelling and I offered my thoughts on this, thoughts that
included a personal commitment to making my contract public
if I was compelled to seek employment in some big biz. At least,
one reader(*) said that my honesty was of some importance, and at
that critical moment, at the start of the whole story, that was a
good thrust to my morale and I decided to continue.
Sincerely,
Constantin Chassapis
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Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 15:56:16 +0200
To: Andreas.Fuegner@lizenz.com, cschassapis@acm.org
From: Henning Fischer <Henning.Fischer@gmd.de>
Subject: Re: [ICANN-EU] Answers to Questions by Svensson and
Roessler
Cc: <icann-europe@fitug.de>
In-Reply-To: <00d701c006a7$4a16fee0$0b0aa8c0@f-gner>
At 12:55 15.08.00 +0200, Andreas Fügner wrote:
>Dear Constantine:
>
>The only people you could ask to sponsor you
>are the At-Large-Members, your voters.
>
>Whether you are honest or not, is not the point.
I do not fully agree to this statement. Yes, independence is
am important value, no doubt. But it is easy for all candidates
saying that they are "self employed". We are nearly knowing
nothing about the candidates from other countries and therefore
this dabate is a good chance to learn more. For me it is more
important to see how a candidate react and answer the questions,
than the fact that one is employed by a "big" company or not.
>We need somebody representing users.
Sure! This is what we want to know from *all* candidates.
Regards
Henning Fischer henning@w3.org
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----- Original Message -----
From: Joop Teernstra <terastra@terabytz.co.nz>
To: Constantine S. Chassapis <cschassapis@acm.org>
Cc: <icann-europe@fitug.de>
Sent: Monday, August 28, 2000 4:48 AM
Subject: rephrasing header
> At 16:53 27/08/00 +0300, you wrote:
> >Dear Sir,
> >It is a matter of self-respect, not to answer your
> >interesting questions, no matter how much I would like to
> >do it. Please rephrase the heading of your
> >message.
> >
>
> Dear Constantine,
>
> In politics the respect of others is not simply a reflection of a
> candidate's self respect.
> I have had to learn this truth the hard way.
> Too much self-respect is deadly in politics.
> Time is short. I do not know any of the European candidates well enough
> to ooze respect for any one of them. Putting the questions to Jeanette by
> name was only a reflection of the "independent support for.." headers just
> preceding.
> Respect must be earned.
> The substance of the questions matters.