RE: [ICANN-EU] [Q&A] the exciting adventures of a nominee

[Jefsey Morfin <jefsey@wanadoo.fr>]

Dear Andrew,
I wish to underline that this absurd and dangerous approach does not
stand anyway the French case.

 > At 17:32 11/09/00, you wrote:
 > There's no mistake.  You are a resident of Asia/Pacific.  Voting is defined
 > by residency.  Therefore you fall within Asia/Pacific for purposes of
 > voting.  Candidacy is defined by citizenship.  Therefore, you fall within
 > Europe for purposes of candidacy.

There are French citizens from all the regions as France has national
territories in NA, SA, AA, Africa and Europe. I certainly accept to be
an European candidate as most of the national territory is located there,
but I definitly resent - I am not agressive but certainly very serioius
about it - not to be able to discuss the regional concens of my country
with the candidates of their area. I also resent that my fellow citizens
from Mayotte, La Reunion, La Guyanne, La Martinique et la Guadeloupe,
Saint Perre et Miquelon, Noumea, Thaiti, etc.. could not dialog with the
French or the other European Community candidates. They are as good
French citizen as me. Pretending and acting otherwise purposedly
would be pure racism or offence against my country.

I am therfore sorry to have to do it, but I must solemny protest against
what is most probably a mistake in the site design. But it imposes
ethnical, cultural and geographical discrimination between my fellow
citizens and separtes more than one million of them from the national
community. Would you accept that he US citizens from Alaska and
Hawaii could not talk to US candidates?

I will not juge from one case, but it is however important and childish
enough to have some concern about the ability of the current ICANN
culture to manage basic international operations.
Jefsey Morfin