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[council] Call for Nominations for the election of ICANN Board members



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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 unavoidably 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

All informations concerning nominations and election will be posted
on the DNSO website, http://www.dnso.org/.
(*) local time in other places is indicated on the DNSO website.

DNSO Secretariat
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[from http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/19990917.DNSO-ICANN-nominations.html]

ICANN/DNSO

        Call for Nominations for the election of ICANN Board members
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September 17th, 1999.



           Call for Nominations for the election of Members of the
                       ICANN Board elected by the DNSO



        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.