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[ga] Re: ICANN Directors Nominations (follow up)


Joe and all,

  After some review by our staff, I have been made aware that indeed
there is something smelly going on here...  Nice bit of snooping, Joe...

  Stay on top of this would you?  >;)

!Dr. Joe Baptista wrote:

>               ICANN Directors Nominations (follow up)
>               =======================================
>
> CANDIDATES:
> -----------
>
> This past Saturday 19 Aug 2000 I made a number of predictions regarding
> ICANN directors nominations - which see;
>
> http://lists.netsol.com/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0008&L=DOMAIN-POLICY&P=R34370
>
> I am pleased to say that the candidates I selected have all been nominated
> with the exception of two candidates in the Asia Pacific region - being
> Jong Ho Kim who currently holds 587 votes and Kuo-Wei Wu with 715 votes.
>
> I have also added Berend Schuitema from the African Region with 9 votes (7
> to qualify) and Dmitri Bourkov from Europe with 536 votes.
>
> PROJECTIONS:
> ------------
>
> On Friday, 1 Sep 2000 I provided some straight line projections which
> estimated the total validated/verified applications would be some 82,839
> or 52% of total applications - which see;
>
> http://lists.netsol.com/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0009&L=DOMAIN-POLICY&P=R82
>
> These projections were not met - I expect they will close nominations with
> some 77,000 validated applications which represents 49% of total
> applications for membership (close - but no cigar).
>
> Based on this information I can say with certainty that large blocks of
> the @large are controlled - and at least a good portion are bogus
> registrations.
>
> DISCUSSION:
> -----------
>
> At this time the only region I can see with any chance of beating the
> ICANN candidate selections is Europe and maybe Latin America.  This is
> based on the total vote count per region refelected as a percentage of
> validated members.  Europe is at 36% while Latin America squeeks by at
> 28%.  If candidates in those two regions "make deals" with each other and
> can deliver the vote - then the probability of a win against an ICANN
> selected director is possible.  I can not say the same for other regions.
>
> There has also been considerable discussion on numerous lists with respect
> to the European region being taken over by hackers.  I have found many of
> these discussion somewhat humourous.  I feel Europe and the organizational
> level there is not even close to a well organized campaign.  It is
> "organized" but not in the professional way of political parties.  I find
> many of these accusation of takeover and highjacking to be mainly bogus
> and ill informed speculation.
>
> The organizational efforts deployed in Europe should be taken as a minimum
> requirement guide for future candidates.  Or in plain language - if you
> sit on your ass and play with yourself you'll get a warm fuzzy feeling -
> but don't expect to win this election.
>
> CURRENT STATS, VOTES & PROJECTIONS:
> -----------------------------------
>
> Date / Desc             Africa  Pacific Europe  Latin   North   Totals
>
> 18-Aug                  171     22124   14803   2130    7864    47092
> 22-Aug                  197     27513   16787   2494    8406    55397
> 23-Aug                  212     28575   17888   2749    8804    58228
> 25-Aug                  225     29481   18660   2838    8956    60160
> 28-Aug                  256     31981   20339   3144    9584    65304
> 30-Aug                  273     33135   21051   3248    9812    67519
> 1-Sep                   281     34164   21626   3324    10009   69404
> 4-Sep                   302     35373   22544   3435    10233   71887
> 5-Sep                   308     36006   22870   3492    10346   73022
> 6-Sep                   312     36831   23123   3519    10482   74267
> 7-Sep                   314     37765   23366   3554    10615   75614
>
>
> Total Verified apps     314     37765   23366   3554    10615   75614
> Total membership apps   787     93782   35942   6486    21596   158593
> % total Apps verified   40%     40%     65%     55%     49%     48%
>
> Change per Region       143     15641   8563    1424    2751    28522
> Change per day          7       782     428     71      138     1426
>
> Projected Verified apps 321     38547   23794   3625    10753   77040
> % of total Apps         41%     41%     66%     56%     50%     49%
>
> Total Votes             66      4750    8483    1003    2012    16314
> % of validated members  21%     13%     36%     28%     19%     22%
> % of total Apps         8%      5%      24%     15%     9%      10%
> 2% of validated         7       756     468     72      213
>
> NOMINATED CANDIDATES:
> ---------------------
>
> Region  Name                    Nflag   Votes   % Validated
>
> AFRICA  Amin Amor               N       9       2.9%
> AFRICA  Calvin Browne           N       48      15.3%
> AFRICA  Berend Schuitema        N Add   9       2.9%
> ASIA    Hong Jie li             N       1153    3.1%
> EUROPE  Andy Mueller-Maguhn     N       2692    11.5%
> EUROPE  Lutz Donnerhacke        N       859     3.7%
> EUROPE  Jeanette Hofmann        N       1185    5.1%
> EUROPE  Dmitri Bourkov          N Add   536     2.3%
> LATAMER Claudio Silva Menezes   N       865     24.3%
> NRAMER  Karl Auerbach           N       575     5.4%
> NRAMER  Barbara Simons          N       429     4.0%
> NRAMER  Emerson Tiller          N       373     3.5%
>
> Notes on NFlag: N (Nominated)
>                 N Add (Nominated and added later)
>
> regards
> Joe Baptista
>
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