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[ICANN-EU] Re: [icann-candidates] An older proposal reiterated
Hi Barbara,
or should I say my president ;-)
I thank you very much for your answer. It is only
what I expected from you, long time now a well
known person of communication and of hard work.
I can only thank you and wish you all the best to your
new effort, that goes well as I see in the NA candidates
page at members.icann.org site.
Cordially,
Constantin Chassapis
----- Original Message -----
From: Barbara Simons <simons@acm.org>
To: Constantine S. Chassapis <cschassapis@acm.org>
Cc: <icann-europe@fitug.de>; <icann-candidates@egroups.com>; Barbara Simons
<simons@acm.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2000 9:45 PM
Subject: Re: [icann-candidates] An older proposal reiterated
> Hi, Constantine.
>
> The people who care enough about ICANN to have involved
> themselves with the member-nominated process are clearly a
> group that should be listened to by whomever wins the election.
> If the candidates choose to organize themselves, possibly together
> with other interested people, into a group that calls itself eubody
> or whatever other name it decides upon, I should think that
> that would improve their chances of being listened to. But of
> course it strongly depends on who wins the election.
>
> In my election statement I pledge to create an advisory body of
> experts from the relevant areas, including technology, policy,
> economics, and the law. As ACM President I created
> president@acm.org so that members could write directly to me.
> Not only did I get a sense of the interests of the members,
> but I was also able to fix some problems that otherwise might
> have been ignored or fallen through the cracks at headquarters.
>
> If I am elected to the Board, I shall try to make myself
> similarly available to the at-large members. Since
> the Internet community is obviously considerably larger
> than the ACM membership, which is only 80,000,
> I could find myself overwhelmed with email, in which
> case I might not be able to respond to everyone. (I believe
> that I responded to all the ACM members who wrote).
> I would also create a web site specifically for members
> to hold discussions about topics of concern to them.
>
> I don't know if you find my response satisfactory or not.
> The bottom line, as far as I'm concerned, is that a
> representative of the at-large membership must act like
> a representative. That means making a commitment to
> listening and responding to as many people as possible.
> It also means getting input from people who are knowledgeable
> about all the areas involved with ICANN policy, since none
> of us is an expert in them all.
>
> Regards,
> Barbara
>
> "Constantine S. Chassapis" wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Since I saw some self-organisational effort by the NA
> > candidates (Karl and Barbara), I am reiterating my older
> > proposal from Aug 17 (which you can find here in red:
> > http://users.otenet.gr/~kchas/icannmail.htm#Votes2)
> > to all EU candidates. Anyway, here is the idea:
> >
> > What if we form a body, (lets call it the "eubody")
> > and then, here comes a candidate and says:
> > "I recognize my limits. I now declare that I will not decide,
> > if I get elected, on any matter in the ICANN board, without
> > discussing the matter with eubody! (Maybe he will also
> > declare that he will wait for the ok from the eubody,
> > but that probably goes too far ;-) ).
> >
> > I think that I will vote for such a candidate, if some minimum
> > criteria of technical ability and political awareness are satisfied.
> > (Now, after these days of intense emailing, I believe, we are
> > able to form a more or less complete image of all candidates
> > (even of those that have not spoken, because, the abstention
> > from this list is a part of the image of a candidate!))
> >
> > Sincerely,
> > Constantin Chassapis
> >
> >
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