Re: [ICANN-EU] How to proceed

["Andreas Fügner" <Andreas.Fuegner@lizenz.com>]

Dear Patrick,

>I still like the idea of independent funding for the yet-to-be-elected
>Director. Unfortunately (strictly in the sense of fundraising ;-)   , he is
>elected now. Therefore, several groups of donors will pull out. Anyway, I
would
>like to follow the idea of some kind of interest group independent funding.
>Does it still make sense to set up a european fund to support Andy's (1)
>travel costs, esp. for his european contacts, and (2) back office (incl.
some
>people to do administrative work for him?)?


I think it makes a lot of sense to set up an account
a) collect donations and
b) support Andy's work.

I would trust Andy to handle the money in a senseful way.
Would you care to open an "At-Large-Supporters-Account", Andy?


>The most important point IMO is to make the At-Large-Membership-Elections
>a success in terms of useful work of it's directors. Let's support Andy
(and
>the others) now to get the most democratic influence possible on the ICANN
>BoD. The goal should be to prevent the ICANN board from abolishing ALM in
>the first place and then, to get them to have the full number of ALM
directors
>(9) elected over time.


Andrew McLaughlin's email sounded pretty happy with the proceedings
so far.

>Finally, Andy has very much promoted the idea of a "(trademark-) law-free"
>TLD. If there are any lawyers or other law people on the list interested in
>discussing that idea and developing it in some more detail, please contact
>me by PM.


A trademark owner would loose his rights, if he does not defend it.
Thus, I see no chance to convince TM holders to not object against
misuse or abuse within any TLD.

Best regards,

Andreas Fuegner