An At-Large community call with the candidates will be held on Saturday, 13 November at 1300 UTC. You can find the draft agenda and participation instructions under:
https://community.icann.org/display/atlarge/Community+Call+on+At-Large+Board+Director+Candidates+11.10+-+Teleconference
On 28 October 2010, the At-Large Board Candidate Evaluation Committee (BCEC) announced the slate of three candidates for the position of At-Large selected voting Board Director. The three candidates, in alphabetical order by family name, are:
Sébastien Bachollet
Pierre Dandjinou
Alan Greenberg
This Candidate-Community Forum page is a space intended to facilitate information exchange between the candidates for the position of At-Large selected Board Director and the At-Large community.
Statements and Additional Information from the Candidates
Questions to the Candidates from the RALOs and Answers from the Candidates
AFRALO
APRALO
EURALO
LACRALO
NARALO
Questions for all Candidates:
1. How do you define "end-user," "consumer," "registrant," and where do those terms intersect?
Answers from Candidates (in order of the candidates' surname)
Sebastien Bachollet
Candidate has not yet submitted answers.
Pierre Dandjinou
Candidate has not yet submitted answers.
Alan Greenberg
Candidate has not yet submitted answers.
2. Describe your level of satisfaction with ICANN's current performance in responding to end-user and registrant concerns.
Answers from Candidates (in order of the candidates' surname)
Sebastien Bachollet
Candidate has not yet submitted answers.
Pierre Dandjinou
Candidate has not yet submitted answers.
Alan Greenberg
Candidate has not yet submitted answers.
3. Is the current speed of the new gTLD creation process happening too fast, too slow, or at the right pace?
Answers from Candidates (in order of the candidates' surname)
Sebastien Bachollet
Candidate has not yet submitted answers.
Pierre Dandjinou
Candidate has not yet submitted answers.
Alan Greenberg
Candidate has not yet submitted answers.
4. What is, in your opinion, the scope of ICANN? What are the limits of its authority?
Answers from Candidates (in order of the candidates' surname)
Sebastien Bachollet
Candidate has not yet submitted answers.
Pierre Dandjinou
Candidate has not yet submitted answers.
Alan Greenberg
Candidate has not yet submitted answers.
5. As a Director, what would be your interest in the Registrar Accreditation Agreement?
Answers from Candidates (in order of the candidates' surname)
Sebastien Bachollet
Candidate has not yet submitted answers.
Pierre Dandjinou
Candidate has not yet submitted answers.
Alan Greenberg
Candidate has not yet submitted answers.
6. Describe, in as much detail as possible, your assessment of WHOIS, specifically stating your opinions on
- the desired balance between registrant privacy and registrant accountability
- the suitability of WHOIS to accomplish its intended purpose
- whether WHOIS needs to be fixed, replaced, discarded or left untouched
Answers from Candidates (in order of the candidates' surname)
Sebastien Bachollet
Candidate has not yet submitted answers.
Pierre Dandjinou
Candidate has not yet submitted answers.
Alan Greenberg
Candidate has not yet submitted answers.
7. What initiatives will you *personally* undertake to increase ICANN's transparency and accountability?
Answers from Candidates (in order of the candidates' surname)
Sebastien Bachollet
Candidate has not yet submitted answers.
Pierre Dandjinou
Candidate has not yet submitted answers.
Alan Greenberg
Candidate has not yet submitted answers.
8. Do end-users and registrants have rights within ICANN? Should they? If you answered yes to either, state how you would encourage the rest of the board to effect this.
Answers from Candidates (in order of the candidates' surname)
Sebastien Bachollet
Candidate has not yet submitted answers.
Pierre Dandjinou
Candidate has not yet submitted answers.
Alan Greenberg
Candidate has not yet submitted answers.
9. As you replace the accountable At-Large liaison to the Board in a role that is explicitly not accountable, describe the relationship you intend to have with ICANN's At-Large Community.
- Are you prepared to make any commitments to levels of engagement with At-Large?
- Are you willing to resign if incapable of meeting those comittments?
Answers from Candidates (in order of the candidates' surname)
Sebastien Bachollet
Candidate has not yet submitted answers.
Pierre Dandjinou
Candidate has not yet submitted answers.
Alan Greenberg
Candidate has not yet submitted answers.
10. How would you describe the "maturity" of ICANN's At-Large infrastructure?
- What is the effect of this on ICANN policy-making?
- What would you do to improve this?
Answers from Candidates (in order of the candidates' surname)
Sebastien Bachollet
Candidate has not yet submitted answers.
Pierre Dandjinou
Candidate has not yet submitted answers.
Alan Greenberg
Candidate has not yet submitted answers.
11. What is your analysis of the recent Board decision regarding vertical integration, specifically from the point of view of Internet registrants and end-users?
Answers from Candidates (in order of the candidates' surname)
Sebastien Bachollet
Candidate has not yet submitted answers.
Pierre Dandjinou
Candidate has not yet submitted answers.
Alan Greenberg
Candidate has not yet submitted answers.
12. All three candidates have, at least once, been appointed to their At-Large positions rather than chosen by the community. How does this impact your view of ICANN and its relationship with the public?
Answers from Candidates (in order of the candidates' surname)
Sebastien Bachollet
Candidate has not yet submitted answers.
Pierre Dandjinou
Candidate has not yet submitted answers.
Alan Greenberg
Candidate has not yet submitted answers.
13. What is the best possible outcome of this election process? What is the worst possible outcome?
Answers from Candidates (in order of the candidates' surname)
Sebastien Bachollet
Candidate has not yet submitted answers.
Pierre Dandjinou
Candidate has not yet submitted answers.
Alan Greenberg
Candidate has not yet submitted answers.
14. Do you consider yourself a "people person"? In other words, do you like people and do you make yourself available because you enjoy spending time listening to people's ideas and concerns?
Answers from Candidates (in order of the candidates' surname)
Sebastien Bachollet
Candidate has not yet submitted answers.
Pierre Dandjinou
Candidate has not yet submitted answers.
Alan Greenberg
Candidate has not yet submitted answers.
15. How many hours of a time commitment per week do you expect will be needed of you as an ICANN Board of Director? Can you dedicate more than that?
Answers from Candidates (in order of the candidates' surname)
Sebastien Bachollet
Candidate has not yet submitted answers.
Pierre Dandjinou
Candidate has not yet submitted answers.
Alan Greenberg
Candidate has not yet submitted answers.
16. Are you a founder, officer, leader or executive management of an organization planning to submit a new TLD application to ICANN? And if so, how does that affect your ability to represent end-users at the Board?
Answers from Candidates (in order of the candidates' surname)
Sebastien Bachollet
Candidate has not yet submitted answers.
Pierre Dandjinou
Candidate has not yet submitted answers.
Alan Greenberg
Candidate has not yet submitted answers.
Questions to specific candidates:
Question for Pierre:
17. Some longtime participants in At-Large have expressed concern about your level of participation and achievement during your tenure on the Interim ALAC. Can you please describe some specific initiatives in which you had leadership or significant participation while on ALAC?
Answers from Candidate
Pierre Dandjinou
Candidate has not yet submitted answers.
Question for Sébastien:
18. If selected as Director, will you resign your NomComm seat on ALAC or retain it?
Answers from Candidate
Sebastien Bachollet
Candidate has not yet submitted answers.
Questions from Individuals
1. Question for the Candidates: The Root Scaling Study Team wrote: "Beyond the very near term, we can’t know in advance exactly how many TLDs can be added to the root, or how fast they can be added, because as soon as you start to add entries to the root each of the root system components adapts and changes in ways that cannot be predicted or effectively coordinated. That’s why it’s so important to build an “early warning system” that can (a) detect signs that one or more of the root system actors is reaching its limit for absorbing changes without major replanning, and (b) take effective mitigating action when those signs are detected."
As an ICANN director, would you approve the launch of new gTLDs prior to having this "early warning system" built?
Thanks,
Danny Younger
2. Question for the Candidates: The IGF process effectively uses "remote hubs" for participation. These hubs are the focal point of local discourse and workshops. While some remote hubs were established on an ad-hoc basis for the ICANN Nairobi meeting (in Bangladesh, Virginia & San Francisco), there has been no institutional support to encourage and develop a sustainable approach to further such efforts. As activities within ALAC's remit include "Establishing an outreach strategy about ICANN issues in each RALO's Region", will you, as a Board director, see to it that a program is established by the ALAC to support an ongoing regional "remote hub" outreach strategy?
Thanks,
Danny Younger
3. Question for the Candidates: The ICANN Board's decision with respect to Vertical Integration has the potential to negatively impact the registrant community. Registrants "may be harmed by an integrated registry/registrar operation’s ability to identify high value domains, hold those domains off the market (either directly or through affiliates) and to then monetize them at a premium price. These practices render the domain name unavailable to the “first-come” registrant or force that registrant to pay a higher price than the standard retail offer." What action will you take as a board director to monitor the domain name marketplace so as to ensure that registrants aren't abused by domain name scalping?
Thanks,
Danny Younger
