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Re: [council] Call for nominations -- to be sent today, Sep 17, 18:00 CET



Dear Elisabeth and pNC:

I have informed Jonathan about the Call for Nominations - he has no
objections to it as it is written.

Best regards,

Victoria

At 07:16 AM 17/09/99 , you wrote:
>Council,
>
>The "Call for Nominations for the election of ICANN Board members"
>shall be sent today, September 17, 18:00 CET.
>
>I am requesting your verification for the following text prepared
>by Javier Sola and myself according to the NC request.
>I believe the text is complying with the NC telecon decisions.
>
>Without any formal opposition from the NC until 17:00 CET
>this text will be sent today, September 17, 18:00 CET.
>Please accept my appology for the short
>notice, however you know since September 15th, that this text
>shall be posted today, end of business hours CET.
>
>Thank you,
>Elisabeth
>--
>Announcement
>------------
>[
>[ Sent to: ga@dnso.org, announce@dnso.org, council@dnso.org
>[          wg-b@dnso.org, wg-c@dnso.org, wg-d@dnso.org, wg-e@dnso.org
>[
>[ The members of the Names Council are requested to forward
>[ this announcement to the Constitiencies mailling lists
>[ in order to reach all DNSO General Assembly members.
>[
>Dear Collegues,
>
>The Names Council is pleased to announce a call for nomination 
>for the election of Members of the ICANN Board elected by the DNSO.
>
>In our effort to reach as many interested parties as possible
>we may inavoidably send you more than one copy. Please accept our
>apology for this.
>
>Important dates:
> 17 September - 8 October 1999, 18:00 CET (*)
>               Domain Names Supporting Organization nominations
>                for the election of ICANN Board members
> 9 October - 16 October 1999, 18:00 CET (*)
>                Vote of the DNSO Names Council
>
> (*) see http://www.dnso.org/ for local time in other places
>
>All informations concerning nominations and election will be posted
>on the DNSO website.
>
>DNSO Secretariat
>--
>[from http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/19990917.DNSO-ICANN-nominations.html]
>
>ICANN/DNSO
>
>        Call for Nominations for the election of ICANN Board members
>  ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>September 17th, 1999.
>
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>           Call for Nominations for the election of Members of the
>                       ICANN Board elected by the DNSO
>
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>
>        The Bylaws of ICANN request that the DNSO elects three
>        members of the ICANN Board.
>
>        The Names Council has resolved that the first elections for
>        such Members of the Board will take place between the 9th
>        and the 15th of October, 1999. Candidates for this election
>        may be nominated between the 17th of September 1999 and the
>        8th of October 1999.
>
>        The Names Council will elect three members of the ICANN
>        Board. One of them will serve for a period of three years, a
>        second one for a period of two years and the third one for a
>        period of one years. Afterwards one Member of the Board will
>        be elected every year to replace the member whose term has
>        expired.
>
>        The Bylaws require that candidates for the position of Board
>        Member must be nominated by the General Assembly of the
>        DNSO.
>
>        The Names Council has resolved that a candidate, in order to
>        be nominated must have the support of, at least, 10 members
>        of the General Assembly. For this purpose, anybody who is
>        subscribed to the General Assembly mailing list, the
>        Announce mailing list or the list of one of the
>        Constituencies of the DNSO is considered a member of the
>        General Assembly. As the Annouce and General Assembly list
>        are open, anybody wishing to participate in the nomination
>        process may subscribe to one of these lists and be
>        considered a member of the General Assembly.
>
>        ICANN has indicated its desire to change the Bylaws to make
>        the office of Member of the ICANN Board incompatible with
>        the the office of Member of the DNSO Names Council (the
>        proposed amendments can be found at
>        http://www.icann.org/general/bylaws-changes-16sept99.htm).
>        As this is not yet official, Members of the Names Council
>        who wish to be considered as candidates will be requested to
>        state (just for information of the voters) if they will
>        resign from the Names Council if they are elected to the
>        ICANN Board.
>
>        According to the proposed Bylaws amendments it is
>        anticipated that a Names Council Member cannot vote or
>        otherwise participate in an election for ICANN Director in
>        which that member is also a nominated candidate.
>
>        In order to be considered as a candidate, the nominee,
>        besides having the support of ten members of the General
>        Assembly, will be asked via email to personally accept the
>        nomination. If the nominee cannot be contacted via email
>        then the nomination will not be considered.
>
>        The acceptance of the Nomination must include:
>
>           * Their full name
>           * E-mail address
>           * Organization they work for (if apply)
>           * Snail-mail address.
>           * The region that includes the country of which they are
>             a citizen
>           * The region that includes the country in which they
>             reside
>           * A clear statement of acceptance of the nomination
>           * A Curriculum Vitae (no more than 500 words long)
>           * A statement indicating their ideas, intentions and/or
>             the reason why they consider they should be elected to
>             serve in the ICANN Board (no more than 500 words).
>
>        Any statement of acceptance that does not include all the
>        items stated above will be consider invalid.
>
>        Nominations and statements of support for a nominee must
>        include:
>
>           * Name, e-mail and organization (if apply) of the person
>             doing the nomination or support
>           * Name of the person being nominated or supported
>
>        Any nomination or statement of support for nomination that
>        does not include these items will be cosidered invalid.
>
>        Nominations, statements of support for a nomination and
>        statements of acceptance must be send by e-mail to
>        icann-nominations@dnso.org between the 17th of September
>        1999 and the 8th of October 1999 (18:00 CET, see
>        http://www.dnso.org/timeworld.html for local time in other
>        places). All nominations, statements of support for
>        nomination and statements of acceptance will be published in
>        the www.dnso.org website. Any mail regarding nominations
>        sent to any other e-mail address will not be considered.
>
>        The election mechanism to be used by the Names Council to
>        elect the ICANN Board members will be posted in the DNSO
>        website no later than September 24th.
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