Re: [ga] Distinctions Emerging Between Candidates

[Bob Davis <bob.davis@netzero.net>]

Rob and everyone,

Rob Courtney wrote:

> Bob,
>
> You're right to point out the limited scope of our project--it's
> intended as a convenient resource for basic candidate info.

  Understood.  I had hoped that the connivance would be in favor
of the voter.

> I'm sure
> you've noticed that we haven't yet received responses from every
> candidate. We've refrained from adding questions (either our own, or
> those submitted by visitors to our site) to the questionnaire because
> we want to ensure that all the candidates receive equal treatment,
> and that they all have the same questions presented to them in the
> same fashion.

  Understood.  I was under the impression that the voter should be
getting the equal treatment.

>
>
> Our policy's been to redirect those people who want to pose questions
> to the candidates over to forums that were designed with that in
> mind, such as the ICANN Q&A forum (warts and all) or the various
> mailing lists, IRC chats, and web casts that have been going on. That
> way, energy is concentrated in the places where it can do the most
> good.

  I would say that the energy is misdirected.  Just my opinion though.

>
>
> r
>
> At 12:42 AM -0700 9/29/00, Bob Davis wrote:
> >Rob and everybody,
> >
> >   This is an nice forum but limited.  I does not provide for
> >voters to pose questions to the candidates.  A good web interface
> >can easily do this.  Some Internet News agencies provide something
> >similar usually called "Feed Back".  That could be adopted simply
> >to provide for voters to pose questions.  I wonder why CDT did not
> >or is not doing that?
> >
> >Rob Courtney wrote:
> >
> >  > DNSO members,
> >  >
> >  > Interesting results are surfacing in the ICANN Questionnaire Project
> >  > undertaken by CDT, Common Cause, and the Bertelsmann Foundation. The
> >  > candidates' responses to our questionnaire (which was distributed
> >  > last Monday) are showing significant distinctions between the
> >  > candidates, as well as clear indications of their concrete policy
> >  > ideas. This kind of data has occasionally been difficult to isolate
> >  > out of the numerous mailing lists and Q&A forum discussions, and we
> >  > hope that voters find a concentrated resource like this useful.
> >  > Particularly in the domain of the UDRP and in ICANN's larger mission,
> >  > it's becoming possible to identify the disjunctions from one
> >  > candidate to another. I'd like to invite any and all members of the
> >  > DNSO to review the page, and I hope that if you have any comments or
> >  > thoughts, you'll contact me with them.
> >  >
> >  > The page is online at http://www.cdt.org/icann-election/. It's still
> >  > a work in progress, and candidate responses will continue to be added
> >  > as we receive them.
> >  >
> >  > r
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> Rob Courtney
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