Re: [ga] Distinctions Emerging Between Candidates

[Rob Courtney <rob@cdt.org>]

Bob,

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

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.

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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