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In the event that you want to endorse one of these candidates (I agree with earlier posters who recommended Karl Auerbach and Barbara Simons), you'll need to jump through several hoops.

To do that, you'll need your membership number and password (get your reminder e-mail here) and the PIN that was mailed to your home address.

Once you're an active member, you can endorse a candidate on the ICANN Membership pages. Again, you'll need your membership number, password and PIN.

Most people don't realize that you can change your endorsement right up until the last day. (See Endorsement FAQ.) So if the first candidate you endorse has no chance of reaching the 2% threshold (check the progress here), you can log in again and change your endorsement to help someone else you like get over the hump.

The endorsement period closes on August 31st. And remember, this endorsement process is simply for purposes of setting the ballot; you'll be able to vote for anyone on the ballot when the election takes place in October. Endorse early and often.

-- Bret

Thanks Tripp! (By-the-way you forgot to mention that I helped build the original Internet toasters - yes, real toasters that toasted real bread - way back in 1988. ;-)

If anybody wants to take a look at my campaign materials, they are up on my server at http://www.cavebear.com/ialc/

(I suspect that many /.-ers might be more interested in my catalog of bogus network products: http://www.cavebear.com/cavebear/catalog.html )

As for ICANN - I'm pretty much in ICANN's "loyal opposition" camp - although I suspect that several ICANN folks would drop the "loyal" part.

I'm not an anarchist - I think that in many regards we are going to end up with an Internet that is more regulated than some of us might want. But from what I've seen so far, the tendency is for an entity like ICANN to swing very far in favor of organized commercial interests and very far against individuals and small groups. I don't like that.

Another thing that bothers me about ICANN is that those who are making the decisions don't really know how things work. I doubt that many ICANN board members really understand how DNS works or why aggregation of IP address allocations is complicated.

I'm basically a techie who happens to have this peverse notion that policy and law are interesting. I would hope that I've had enough contact with actual networking and computers to avoid doing the equivalent of defining pi as 3.

Tripp - by the way, you missed the early Interop show nets where we arrived at midnight with spools of thicknet and several dozen routers and we had to have a running show net by 8am running IP, OSI, DECnet, and IPX. Now, that was seriously harrowing.

--karl--

Thanks Tripp! (By-the-way you forgot to mention that I helped build the original Internet toasters - yes, real toasters that toasted real bread - way back in 1988. ;-)

If anybody wants to take a look at my campaign materials, they are up on my server at http://www.cavebear.com/ialc/

(I suspect that many /.-ers might be more interested in my catalog of bogus network products: http://www.cavebear.com/cavebear/catalog.html )

As for ICANN - I'm pretty much in ICANN's "loyal opposition" camp - although I suspect that several ICANN folks would drop the "loyal" part.

I'm not an anarchist - I think that in many regards we are going to end up with an Internet that is more regulated than some of us might want. But from what I've seen so far, the tendency is for an entity like ICANN to swing very far in favor of organized commercial interests and very far against individuals and small groups. I don't like that.

Another thing that bothers me about ICANN is that those who are making the decisions don't really know how things work. I doubt that many ICANN board members really understand how DNS works or why aggregation of IP address allocations is complicated.

I'm basically a techie who happens to have this peverse notion that policy and law are interesting. I would hope that I've had enough contact with actual networking and computers to avoid doing the equivalent of defining pi as 3.

Tripp - by the way, you missed the early Interop show nets where we arrived at midnight with spools of thicknet and several dozen routers and we had to have a running show net by 8am running IP, OSI, DECnet, and IPX. Now, that was seriously harrowing.

--karl--

Here's an interesting platform by an interesting candidate.

His endorsement page is here.