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Do you support .eu?
Do you support the resolution adopted at the ICANN Board meeting on 25 September 2000, to accept .eu to become a new ccTLD?
Author: Alf Hansen - posted on 2000-10-09 15:02:27
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Voting system
As you know, in the present BoD not everyone is happy with ALM. OTOH, one may see more legitimation in a larger community than in ALMembers-with-PIN. But nowadays, a limited, non-binding voting system...
Author: Giampaolo Bonora - posted on 2000-10-09 08:17:30
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Vote
How I can open the voting site.
The site https://vote.election.com/icann
doesn´t open since Monday the 1.Okt.
Please answer in German, if it´s possible
Author: Jutta Bolle - posted on 2000-10-09 06:27:34
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NO Access to voting site
I tried for days to get on the voting site ( today 5 more attemps!) - with no success. I`ve although sent mails to the Icann-webmaster. No answer since today. Please tell me what kind of game are you ...
Author: Gudrun Riedl - posted on 2000-10-09 05:54:07
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non-profit interests
How do you intend to make sure ICANN not strictly geared to meeting business interests? Doesn't entrance fee for TLD operation de facto exclude not-for-profit groups?
Author: Cécile Urbejtel - posted on 2000-10-08 09:52:49
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restricion of the use of the TLDs
I realise it could be hard to determine the exact purpose of a domain at the atc of registration, but, in order to get clearer the meanings of each TLD, why don't rationalize their use. I.e. not allow...
Author: Matteo Sommaruga - posted on 2000-10-08 09:34:32
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new TLDs
I thik that creating too many new TLDs could create only confusion. Exactly the opposite of the purpose cause of which they would be introduced. And why don't limit the TLDs' lenght to three characte...
Author: Matteo Sommaruga - posted on 2000-10-08 09:32:10
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online publishing
could be usefull to create domains with a certain .TLD reserved for online medias?
Author: Matteo Sommaruga - posted on 2000-10-08 09:19:53
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Domain Name disputes between TM holders and domain holders
What do you think of the recent disputes between trademark holders (and similar claimants), and owners of domains? For example, the recent Barcelona.com case, and also about the disputes regarding Cor...
Author: Mandeep Singh - posted on 2000-10-08 07:16:05
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Need for TLDs?
Isn't it time to do away with TLDs altogether? If domains are there for us users to make our lives easier than IP-numbers could ever do, then why pester us with attachments like .com, .de or whatever?
Author: Thomas Schulz - posted on 2000-10-08 05:31:23
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Membership
Will ICANN be re offering membership to people who failed to active there account in time. Will you be discussing pornography and how we can govern it.
Author: Paul Sutcliffe - posted on 2000-10-07 15:18:07
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democracy in icann administration body
How is the the democracy balanced in icann? Is the representative or the direct way of taking influence in the decisions of icann preferred? What do you suggest?
Author: Benjamin Herzog - posted on 2000-10-07 13:11:16
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tld, internationalization
shouldNotIcann:
- operateAsMinimalAsPossible
- beAsInternationalAsPossible
(NoRegionsForElections..)
- allow as many tld as technically
possible, and force content behind
a domain
(to e...
Author: rupert thurner - posted on 2000-10-07 08:20:58
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Speculations with public ressources
The famous names or acronyms of
public organizations, including the
oldest European universities and
schools, are registered for sale
under .com/.org/net, or already sold.
It seems quite pos...
Author: Elisabeth Porteneuve - posted on 2000-10-07 07:10:56
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If not elected ...
... how will you contribute to At Large Membership ?
Author: Giampaolo Bonora - posted on 2000-10-06 15:08:08
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TLD for my home page
Will be there a TLD for my personal home page?
Registry.it and Dada have proposed a new TLD : pid (Personal IDentification), name is not important but the idea is good.
What do you think?
Excuse fo...
Author: Sandro Veronese - posted on 2000-10-05 16:37:51
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Voting authentication broken
I managed to log in to send this, but couldn´t authenticate to vote.
What´s happening ?
Author: David Pratt - posted on 2000-10-05 07:36:57
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English Domination over domains
The new TLDs will be english words. What about promoting the use of other languages ?
For a news bulletin i will have to use the news TLD in Italy. Why not the italian word notizie, without risking...
Author: Carlo Gubitosa - posted on 2000-10-04 06:19:39
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dot war top level domain
reading the new TLDs recently proposed, i saw the .war domain.
The birth of new TLD should be guided by ethical principles like respect of life and proibithion of sites regarding war ?
There are...
Author: Carlo Gubitosa - posted on 2000-10-04 06:03:06
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Napster case
What is your clear position on the Napster case ?
Author: Michel MANTOUT - posted on 2000-10-03 06:57:05
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bylaws experience
Knowledge of bylaws, parliamentary rules, platforms and coalitions may decide the effect when having minority seats. Which positions have you had in the past: seats or president of students', city, c...
Author: Hanno Freyhold - posted on 2000-10-03 05:31:24
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serious problems to cast vote!
although i finally succeeded to cast my vote on election.com many many people complain about serious technical problems. are the candidates and icann/election.com aware of that? are there any official...
Author: Chris Eckert - posted on 2000-10-02 09:55:32
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European values on Data Protection
Regarding ICANN's Advisory of 24/9, what additional safeguards do you propose to prevent (ab)use of our personal data (domain registrations) for further purposes? [Including by Registrars as well as b...
Author: Rory Kearns - posted on 2000-10-02 07:23:19
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election.com - again
What about some lobby for a minimal functionality of all Web resources ?
I tried the voting page at election.com but the server disconnects me during SSL negotiation - it may want 128 bit encryptio...
Author: Paul Chitescu - posted on 2000-10-02 04:44:33
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Election.com and bugs
Why is the icann vote organised at election.com (by the way, the vote bugged on an ASP error when I tried it ...) ?
Author: Alain Brissaud - posted on 2000-10-01 11:49:19
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Free TLD
I know registering 2nd level domain is a money-maker business, growing every day. What about providing TLDs where people can register their 2nd level domain for free ?
Author: Andrea Rimicci - posted on 2000-09-30 08:31:06
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Misuse of internet
Okay, most of the nominees agree on the subject of the freedom of speech on the internet. But how about racism, child-porn and illegal activities (like the smuggling of immigrants)?
Author: G Schultz - posted on 2000-09-28 16:25:26
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Security of internet
One of the main issues in the Netherlands, especially amongst aspiring e-commerce entrepreneurs, is the question of security. How do You think the security of internet-payments can be guaranteed?
Author: G Schultz - posted on 2000-09-28 16:20:19
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What anti-SPAM policy (if any), do you promote for ICANN?
SPAM (unsolicited commercial email) is largely recognized as undesirable. Do you think ICANN can/should do anything against SPAM. Specifically what policy do you promote ?
Author: Benoît Marchal - posted on 2000-09-27 22:48:46
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How will you support yourself?
Although personal, I think it's an important question because voluntary efforts can flounder for lack of time.
Already I notice that some candidates cannot answer questions claiming work constraints....
Author: Benoît Marchal - posted on 2000-09-27 22:46:07
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Transfer of the Root Server
What kind of control can ICANN get over the root server? What would the elements in such a transfer be? How would you secure a de facto controll?
Author: Georg Panzer - posted on 2000-09-27 10:56:04
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Volounteering
In North America Q&A Forum, A.Bloch asked: International Volounteers to assist ICANN? (you can see the complete thread there). Your opinion, also in respect to build intermediate institutions?
Author: Giampaolo Bonora - posted on 2000-09-27 08:09:08
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Next years' Agenda
ICANN is not a world government, OK. It's better to keep it small and tied to technical matters. But, as this forum shows, there is a lot of unanswered questions all around. Can this BoD (maybe asking...
Author: Giampaolo Bonora - posted on 2000-09-26 16:32:34
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Diversity
As Director, will you promote the translation of all ICANN on-line documents in languages other than English ?
Author: Giampaolo Bonora - posted on 2000-09-26 14:54:28
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Who currently/should own(s) the domain name registry (6) and property in domain names (6)
Question to candidates in all regions.
In your opinion, how many ICANN approved registrars (or related entities) are also ccTLD registr(y)(ies) and/or gTLD registry managers? a) only NSI b) some c)...
Author: Benjamin Davis - posted on 2000-09-26 09:28:05
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Trademarks dominate the domain landscape
Many companies force domain owners to unregister a domain because its name contains a trademark (esp. Germany). Will anyone who has a domain have to register it as a trademark just to avoid a takeover...
Author: Andreas Steinwachs - posted on 2000-09-26 07:51:15
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New TLD for unions movement ?
What are your views on creation of a new TLD .union ? Managed by international unions bodies...
Author: Jean-Michel ROUSSEAU - posted on 2000-09-26 02:04:08
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Nationality
Who represent Russia (SPb)
Author: Dmitri Lerner - posted on 2000-09-26 00:52:15
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Censorship in the Internet
Due to illegal activities on the Internet (e.g. Napster, extremistic political homepages), some politicans want to censor the internet. What is your oppinion to censorship (think of misuse of censorsh...
Author: Marco Wolfgarten - posted on 2000-09-26 00:04:08
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Californian Law
Actually ICANN is ruled under Californian law. Do you see a way to change this? Do you want to change this? -and why/why not. What can be the alternatives?
Author: Axel Schlenker - posted on 2000-09-25 23:51:21
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Frivolous UDRP complaints
How do you propose to reduce the number of frivoulous UDRP-complaints? Example: dw.com, which DeutscheWelle now is after (see: www.ousted.net). These cases involve costs for respondents, which complai...
Author: Marc Schneiders - posted on 2000-09-25 18:10:36
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ICANN and developing countries
Do you think that it is ICANN's task to improve the internet-infrastructure in developing countries? If yes, how can ICANN support developing countries to build up the necessary technological and educ...
Author: Matthias Tang - posted on 2000-09-25 10:32:44
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IP numbers
What is your opinion on IP numbers
attribution, particularly when IPv6 will
develop. At present IP numbers are
essentially delegated to ISP's. What about
direct attribution?
Author: Michel Talon - posted on 2000-09-25 06:52:01
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European TLD rules
Do the candidates think that almost the European Community TLDs rules should be coordinated as to be the same for each country part of EEC and EEC citizens should be able to register domains in each E...
Author: LAPO SERGI - posted on 2000-09-25 03:34:40
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how do you improve icann's democratic legitimation?
a very important issue for all future elections of icann representatives is the improvement of their democratic legitimation through the net community. this requires the possibility of a *much* broade...
Author: Chris Eckert - posted on 2000-09-24 06:11:54
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ICANN internationalization
In all Regions except North America, most At Large members do not speak English as a mother tongue (many cannot speak it at all). How would you act to prevent them from being second class members, not...
Author: Vittorio Bertola - posted on 2000-09-24 03:34:44
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Directors' rotation in the Board
If elected, would you propose and/or support a country rotation clause (as used often in international Boards), so that no two At Large Directors at the same time can come from the same country? And s...
Author: Vittorio Bertola - posted on 2000-09-24 03:29:43
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Giving a voice to all countries
In most Regions, At Large membership is dominated by one single country. There have already been complaints from such different countries as Japan, France, Italy, Australia, Argentina, Canada, Russia,...
Author: Vittorio Bertola - posted on 2000-09-24 03:25:40
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Election of four missing At Large Director seats
If elected, will you propose and/or support elections in year 2001 to elect four more At Large Directors, as required by the ICANN by-laws? How do you think that those four seats should be divided amo...
Author: Vittorio Bertola - posted on 2000-09-24 03:19:19
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Selection rules for At Large Director candidates
If elected, will you propose and/or support the abolition of the Nomination Committee in further At Large elections, so that all candidates must follow the same path to get to the ballot, increasing t...
Author: Vittorio Bertola - posted on 2000-09-24 03:16:49
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The living half of operating systems
What is your opinion about Microsoft monopoly?
Author: Andrea Riccomagno - posted on 2000-09-23 06:24:50
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Who currently/should own(s) the domain name registry (3) and property in domain names (3)
Thanks to Lessig, Langenberg, Tiller. Comparing Hansen and Muron responses on same questions, to all candidates:
In your opinion, who currently owns the software that gives access to and constructs...
Author: Benjamin Davis - posted on 2000-09-22 12:50:11
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New gTLD's
Wouldn't it be worth trying to create third level domains according to the Nice Agreement and require from the applicant certain files (such as exists in France) to prevent some conflicts with tradema...
Author: Philippe Gilliéron - posted on 2000-09-22 06:10:53
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ICANN@large members
What in your opinion should be the importance and the role of ICANN@large members upon the questions that have to be taken ?
Author: Philippe Gilliéron - posted on 2000-09-22 06:08:49
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News gTLD's
How does the ICANN expect to deal with the abusive registration of domain names in several gTLD's (such as already exists in trademark law) if no control is exercised upon the applicants (that could r...
Author: Philippe Gilliéron - posted on 2000-09-22 06:07:10
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New gTLD's
Though the idea of new gTLD's seems to be a good one, do you think that the introduction a such TLD's should be submitted to a control of the registrar for each applicant (this is not the case for .co...
Author: Philippe Gilliéron - posted on 2000-09-22 06:04:58
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New TLD .eu for Europe ?
What are your views on the introduction of a new
TLD .eu ? Should it be only for the European Union
or also for eastern Europe ?
Author: Richard Mayr - posted on 2000-09-22 05:13:37
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Being an @large director
Although the MAC (Membership Advisory Commitee) had a different opinion than the BoD on this topic actually for being an @large director there is no requirement for being also a member of @large.
Ju...
Author: Giorgio Griffini - posted on 2000-09-21 15:25:11
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Medium size companies
How do you intend to handle the small size companies specific needs?
Calais de Vanssay
CDV Conseil
Author: Calais de Vanssay - posted on 2000-09-21 06:04:01
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kryptology
What is your opinion about the postulates of some
national secret services to receive the copys of
the kryptological keys?
Author: Axel Noetzold - posted on 2000-09-21 04:03:21
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Representativity of the voting
(Already posted by Stephan Ude, translated by Marc Leisegang))
1. Regarding the small amount of at large members, are the elections representative?
2. How will further elections be publicized more...
Author: Marc Leisegang - posted on 2000-09-21 02:08:52
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Is 'Microsoft' a good TLD?
Will anyone be able to register a TLD and do what they want with it,
or will they be required to _democratically_ delegate to 2nd
level domains or what else?
And who will sentence a TLD to be revok...
Author: Alessandro Vesely - posted on 2000-09-21 01:37:46
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independance of ICANN
How will ICANN be able do decide/function
in an independant way (now and future) in front of very important financial interests ?
Author: Georges KOEPFLER - posted on 2000-09-21 00:04:37
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Usability
I first learnt about ICANN @Large on Jakob Nielsen's usability website www.useit.com. How important do you think it is to make the domain name system easy to use and what are your ideas for achieving ...
Author: Frank Wiedmann - posted on 2000-09-20 23:50:56
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Candidates answers to questions
In this forum the members have very qualified and deep questions. Why do not all candidats answers to these questions? -This question is not for you Alf :)
Author: Axel Schlenker - posted on 2000-09-20 23:41:48
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Free access to internet for everybody
In difference to Asia, in Europe, (Germany!!!), large parts of the society are still kept away from the internet because of high access costs, internet communication seems to be restricted to IT speci...
Author: Judith Bogner - posted on 2000-09-20 22:35:17
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New Domain names
What criterior should apply for the release of new generic top level domains ?
Author: Mike Halsall - posted on 2000-09-20 14:24:44
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Should the ICANN censor domains?
Don't cry NO at once!
We had a discussion concerning the responsibility for domain names in Germany not long ago, because some individuals registered domain names consisting of nazi terms. Should th...
Author: Sebastian Schildt - posted on 2000-09-20 12:07:21
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Repräsentativität der Wahlen
1.Sind diese Wahlen angesichts
der geringen Anzahl der At-large
Members repräsentativ ?
2. Was gedenkt man bei zukünfigen Wahlen zu tun, um im Vorfeld solche Wahlen bekannter zu machen?
Mfg Steph...
Author: Stephan Ude - posted on 2000-09-20 11:42:07
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Internet citizenship versus commerce
how the Internet become and in which way are you
going to push it ? Should it be *more* a world's citizens space, preserving the community form of the early days or a commerce space where corporation...
Author: Frederic Seraphine - posted on 2000-09-20 11:29:03
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DNSO-NC: individual DN holders missing
(from Joop Teernstra, www.idno.org)
The DNSO Names Council constituencies are not representing typical
Individual Domain Name holders' interests.
This has resulted in onesided policy recommendatio...
Author: Geza Giedke - posted on 2000-09-20 04:27:27
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POLITICS
Does ICANN have a political function?
- it establishes new gTLDs, such as .free speech, .racism
- it enhances competition on the Registry/Registrar levels?
- the UDRP turns out to be trademark b...
Author: Georg Panzer - posted on 2000-09-18 11:48:09
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Property right in a domain name?
Questions for all candidates in all regions. I would be grateful for an answer this week.
In the candidate's opinion, is there a property right in a domain name? Please explain.
Author: Benjamin Davis - posted on 2000-09-18 10:37:40
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Who should own the domain name registry?
Questions for all candidates in all regions. I would be grateful for an answer this week.
In your opinion, who should own the domain name registry? Mulptiple choice (please choose one): a) US Gov...
Author: Benjamin Davis - posted on 2000-09-18 10:34:48
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Who currently owns the domain name registry?
Questions for all candidates in all regions. I would be grateful for an answer this week.
In your opinion, who currently owns the domain name registry? Mulptiple choice (please choose one): a) US...
Author: Benjamin Davis - posted on 2000-09-18 10:33:54
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Affinity and background
For @large election don't you think that any candidate which have more affinity to a SO constituency (ISP,ccTLD for example) is improperly grabbing a place which should be instead made available for p...
Author: Giorgio Griffini - posted on 2000-09-15 17:44:19
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Democratic ICANN@LARGE
How would you rectify that members from Austria, Germany and Switzerland have a disproportional share of the voting power?
In Europe five people who have the institutional power to advertise themse...
Author: Juergen Mueller - posted on 2000-09-15 07:02:28
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General politic opinions
Do you think the state intervenes too much, fairly, too shyly in our European societies ?
Otherly formulated, where would you position yourself on a line thatcherism/center right/social-democracy/soc...
Author: Pierre Lavaurs - posted on 2000-09-13 10:14:00
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domain name dispute
on your opinion, what is to be done about the allocation of 2nd-level-domains concerning domain- or trademarkgrabbing? what is the role of WIPO in the escalating domain name dispute? what can be done ...
Author: Tim Häußler - posted on 2000-09-12 15:30:38
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New dot names
Do you think ICANN should grant new dot names requests (.news,.sex,.bank,etc...) ?
Does ICANN need to create clear rules to be in position to arbitrate from a completely impartial standpoint ?
Author: Cyrille Lapersonne - posted on 2000-09-11 06:28:22
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Cyber Squatting
Cyber squatting is not an easy subject to solve as many conflincting interests (trade names, personal names and geographic regions) must be taken in account. According to you should ICANN take care of...
Author: Cyrille Lapersonne - posted on 2000-09-11 06:15:16
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Voting modus
What do you think about the voting mechanism used for the Member-nomination process ?
I think this mechanism helped the @large members to focus there attention on a handful of candidates.
It als...
Author: Andreas Trawoeger - posted on 2000-09-11 04:07:10
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Endorsement results
I’m not sure I understand the rules.
If 468 endorsements are enough for a nomination in Europe region, where have Mr. Donnerhacke (912 votes) and Mr. Bourkov (570 votes) gone from the final list?
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Author: Maksim Otstavnov - posted on 2000-09-10 11:17:29
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ICANN invoices for ccTLD registries
What is your opinion regarding the invoices sent by ICANN to the registries of the ccTLDs? Should the fees depend
on the number of domains supported by a ccTLD? References: http://www.centr.org/docs/...
Author: Andreas Borchert - posted on 2000-09-10 09:14:46
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whois
In recent times it became more difficult to find valid contacts in case of spams and/or network attacks due to out-dated,
incomplete, or simply unavailable whois records. What is your opinion regardi...
Author: Andreas Borchert - posted on 2000-09-10 09:04:20
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keeping contact to the membership
What are your ideas on how to stay in touch with the at large membership as a director?
Author: Thomas Roessler - posted on 2000-09-10 05:01:00
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