[ICANN-EU] Re: [ga] Re: Re: Hackers Hijacking ICANN Elections?

[Jefsey Morfin <jefsey@wanadoo.fr>]

To all.
We had a meeting in Paris today as previously indicated. It
included French candidates and the French NomCom (except
two on vacations all the 11 French @large candidates had
brought their support). We had mailed the Swiss NomCom
(from the ICC) but she is traveling.

We intend to publish a press release and consider a press
conference in a few days, expecting some coverage more
because our common presentation than because of the
election itself. But we would then use that first meeting to
muster more interest in the press for the ballot.

1) I can testify that Oliver Muron is present on this ML. We
     underlined Alf Hansen's participation as Oliver though it
     was only fairer from him not to participate. But he shown
     he definitly reads the list, agrees on an european advisory
     comity, and shown he is well informed about people and
     duties of the ICANN. He is one of the few having a clear
     opinion on IP addressing issues and the need to review
     the ASO organisation. He should certainly be carefully
     investgated.

2) we acknowledged that a real French problem is a low
     English usage among French voters (from messages
     directly received). We therefore started a mailing list in
     French. You are certainly welcome to use it. It is
     open to all.: icann-fra@egroups.com, We try to set up
     an icann-fra.org site. If you so desire you may send us
     short notices in English we would translate for you.

     We acknowledged the tremendous effort the German
     people did. If someone had a list of links towards
     German/foreign press sites? (in any language and
     a list of articles passed in the press) I would be really
     happy including it in our press release to make the
     French press understand they miss something real.
     This way what you achieved could also help us and
     everyone.

     Louise, may be you also have urls/reference for the
     Brittish press. What about Itally? Greece?
Thx for your help.
Jefsey Morfin




At 17:11 02/09/00, you wrote:

>Louise,
>many thanks for your kind replay.
>
> > > I can't believe this. Do you really think that germans
>communicate in
> > > german only?
>
> > No, of course not - sorry I cut off the part of the previous mail that
> > referred to Donnerhacke etc and the Chaos Computer Club in the follow up
> > mail:
>
>
> > all the links that he provides are to pages in German, and the search
> > engine ones I have found also.
>
>A simple, non-nationalistic explanation for this would be that many
>european candidates were not well prepared for the sudden
>international attention they've got. However, all of the candidates
>are more or less able to express themselves in english.
>
> > > icann-europe@fitug.de is a mailing list for european candidates and
> > > voters.
> > > Its archive can be found here: http://angua.rince.de/icann-europe/
> >
> > Excellent, thanks for telling me about it. How many people know about 
> it? Is
> > http://angua.rince.de a reasonably well-known site among people interested
> > in ICANN issues?
>
>The owner of the list has asked  all european candidates to
>subscribe. At least two of the officially nominated candidates are
>among the subscribers; Schueller from German Telekom as a
>lurker, Alf Hansen from Scandinavia as an active participant.
>Last week some 130 people had subscribed to the list.
>
>This list is the first attempt to initiate a transnational discussion
>among the european at large members. We are still at an early
>stage, however, I'd expect the list to grow in the near future.
>
>And a final remark about our allegedly german campaigning. Most
>of the european candidates havn't done any active campaigning so
>far. It's the german press that approaches us and asks for
>interviews or background information.
>As some of you may know, the european public sphere is still very
>fragmented. While the german press has covered the election quite
>extensively, the major papers in GB, France, Italy, Austria,
>Switzerland, Spain, the Netherlands and so on have preferred to
>ignore the matter.
>Thus, the german focus should be regarded as an effect rather
>than an intention on the candidates'  side.
>I don't feel comfortable with this situation - not least because it
>does injustice to non-german candidates. Any practical
>suggestions as to how this imbalance could be changed are
>welcome and may be directed to icann-europe@fitug.de
>
>
>jeanette
> > >
> > > Hopefully, this of any help for further background investigations.
> > >
> > > jeanette
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >  This geographical constituency
> > > > thing is really artificial. Here we vote in the dark or don't vote at
> > > > all.
> > > >
> > > > Louise
> > > >
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