Question: Q&A answers were 'diplomatic'. Can't help wondering what specific motivations the nominees have in answering the call? What personal motivations/triumphs do you see yourself gaining out of this? My personal motivation in voting is that I'm doing something about it.

Nominee Replies

Sureswaran Ramadass - posted on 2000-10-09 03:22:58 Diplomacy rather than agressiveness can generally obtain more results. I am unsure if my answers were diplomatic, but I think I have made my stand very clear. I, and I am sure other nominees as well tend to gain nothing out of this except the responsibility of caring for the Asian Netizen. Lulin Gao - posted on 2000-10-09 03:03:21 I share the view you expressed. The specific motivations for me as a nominee is that if elected I will be able to contribute myself and to play an important role to promote the development of Internet. I beleieve Internet development will serve as a solid basis for the advance of knowledge based economy. Masanobu Katoh - posted on 2000-10-02 11:57:19 I started to work on Internet domain names issues through several organizations during the comment process on the US Green Paper and White Paper on this subject. Participating in ICANN activities early 1999, I have been actively involved in the domain name and number management issues both within and outside of ICANN. I am serving on the Names Council of the DNSO, representing the business constituency and the Asia/Pacific region. I also serve as a member of Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy Task Force in Japan where about a dozen experts are drafting a dispute resolution rules and regulations for JPNIC. I work on many volunteer activities independently from any employer or other interest group I know that the best interest for all of them is to promote the Internet in general, not to promote it for somebody’s specific short term interest. Knowing the very public nature of ICANN, I promise that, if I will be elected as a member of the board, I work only for ICANN and the general public. Through my multicultural experiences, I think I can contribute to ICANN by giving a balanced view of all (current and potential) stakeholders of the information society. Johannes Chiang - posted on 2000-10-02 11:50:14 Thank for your comment to our answers and it causes me to review my answers before I start to do yours. I have to say that my answers were not diplomatic but maybe polite. Why so ? I believe I must respect the others while I like them to accept my opinions. And most importantly, we are not to select the members to quarrel in the director board but to communicate. My personal motivation to answer these questions aims always to a good communication with the members to let them know what will I do, if elected. As examples, I always call for the awareness of membership, transparency of the decision making process etc., because I believe they are the most important elements for ICANN. As you compare the questions carried out by Mr. Scott Blanchard and my of my positions stated in the nominee page of ICANN, you will know we are really discussing about what I will do when elected. For your reference, I list my positions as following, i.e. what I am doing, To minimize the Domain Name costs; Domain Name is a kind of private property belonging to Internet citizens, who have only to pay for the necessary overhead such as the maintenance costs, but need not to pay for owing it or for poor tax. 2. To extend the new gTLD without unnecessary restrictions in addition to the considerations of reliability and stability. We could also consider arranging an Alpha-test time for a new gTLD. 3. To support the Multilingual Domain Name Systems for our cultural diversity and notice the development of the numbered Internet Domain Name in the Far-East region 4. To diversify the IP allocation for our region in accordance to its population in comparison to those of North America and Europe 5. To identify and introduce the next-generation Internet Protocols such as IPv6 (enlargement), Mobile-IP (mobility) and MPLS (bandwidth and performance) 6. To introduce preventive thinking into UDRP to avoid potential confrontations in relation to DNS and physical IDs 7. To enhance the outreach and the awareness of At-Large membership 8. To realize a structured Internet Civil Forum 9. To allow at-large membership to determine majority, if not all, increase director seats for the Asia-Australian-Pacific Region.