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

["Andrew McLaughlin" <mclaughlin@pobox.com>]

Joop:

This is getting silly.  There are 76,000+ activated members in this process.
It makes perfect sense that the residents of a region ask questions to the
nominees in that region.  Dialogue is facilitated, without getting out of
hand.  You have plenty of colleauges in other regions who can ask your
questions, if it is important to you.  And you can ask any candidate you
wish any question you wish by sending it to them via email.

--andrew


[ I am now protesting the Q&A infrastructure and its lack of flexibility,
[ because they make it impossible for an expat to participate in web-based
[ debate in the region where (s)he might want to campaign later as director.
[ 
[ Why don't  you allow the @large participants to ask *any* 
[ candidate questions?
[ 
[ Apart from the expat issue, the Asia/Pacific region also shows another
[ deficiency.
[ Australia, New Zealand and some other countries  are clearly "orphaned" in
[ this region.
[ China, Japan and Korea dominate this region. There is barely any
[ communication between Aus/NZ members and the @large candidates.
[ There is no chance that Aus/NZ will ever get the numbers to get their own
[ candidate in.
[ Culturally we belong to Europe, even though economically we are part of
[ Asia.  We understand each other's arguments.
[ (This is also why I joined the EU forum).
[ 
[ You will see increased tension and frustration arising about this
[ artificial ICANN division of the world. 
[ Inflexibility of your interface will only aggravate it.
[ 
[ 
[ 
[ --Joop Teernstra LL.M.--  
[ the Cyberspace Association and 
[ the constituency for Individual Domain Name Owners
[ http://www.idno.org  
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