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[council] Nomination Procedure for ICANN Board Director



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ICANN/DNSO

                 DNSO election of ICANN Board member in 2002

Procedures for nomination of candidates to the ICANN Board position by the
General Assembly of the DNSO and a timetable in 2002

  1. Nomination of candidates for the ICANN Board position:

          Open: Friday 09 August 2002 at 12:00 UTC (14:00 Paris)
          Closed: Friday 30 August 2002 at 12:00 UTC (14:00 Paris) (3 weeks)

          For other places see http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/

  2. Any member of the GA may make a nomination.

          A member of the GA shall be any natural person who at the
          time of the nomination (or endorsement as set forth below)
          is:

             * subscribed to the GA-ga or GA-announce lists;
             * subscribed to a working group list; or
             * a Names Council member; or
             * a member of a DNSO Constituency.

          Note: A person with multiple email addresses is only counted
          once.

  3. Nominations should be emailed to the DNSO Secretariat at the following
     email address: icann-nominations@dnso.org and use the provided Template
     for nomination.

          Template for nomination:

             1a. Full name of the nominee:
             1b. E-mail address of the nominee:
             2a. Full name of the nominator:
             2b. E-mail address of the nominator:
             2c. Type of GA membership:
                 (GA-ga subscriber, GA-announce subscriber,
                 Working Group subscriber, or DNSO Constituency member)

     Nominations will be archived at:
     http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/icann-nominations/Arc02/

  4. Any nominee can express his/her acceptance or declination from the time
     he is nominated, until 3 hours after closing the nomination period.

     If no acceptance is expressed in the period, he/she is thought to have
     declined.

     The acceptance period closes on:

          Friday 30 August 2002 at 15:00 UTC (17:00 Paris)

          For other places see http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/

     Acceptances should be emailed to the DNSO Secretariat at the following
     email address: icann-nominations@dnso.org and use the provided Template
     for acceptance.

          Template for acceptance:

             1. Full name of the nominee:
             2. E-mail address of the nominee:
             3. Organization you work for (if apply):
             4. Snail-mail address (street, city, country):
             5. The region that includes the country of which you are a
citizen:
             6. The region that includes the country in which you reside:
             7. A clear statement of acceptance of the nomination:
             8. If you are a Member of the Names Council, state your
intention
                to resign from the Names Council if you are elected to the
                ICANN Board:
             9. A Curriculum Vitae (no more than 500 words long):
            10. A statement indicating your ideas, intentions and/or
                the reason why you consider you should be elected to serve
                in the ICANN Board (no more than 500 words):

     Acceptances will be archived at:
     http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/icann-nominations/Arc02/

  5. After the deadline of acceptance, the list of accepted nominees will be
     published at
     http://www.dnso.org/elections/2002.DNSO-ICANN-nominees.html and the
     endorsement period will begin.

  6. The endorsements period shall take place starting

          Open: Friday 30 August 2002 at 16:00 UTC (18:00 Paris) (after the
          list of accepted nominees is published)
          Closed: Friday 20 September 2002 at 16:00 UTC (18:00 Paris) (3
          weeks)

          For other places see http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/

     Members of the GA may endorse as many accepted nominees as they wish,
     but may only endorse any given accepted nominee once. While the Names
     Council will consider the number of endorsements for each accepted
     nominee as valuable input into the selection process, given the
     potential for abuse in an online process, such numbers will not be
     definitive.

     Endorsements should be emailed to the DNSO Secretariat at the following
     email address: icann-endorsements@dnso.org and use the provided
     Template for endorsement.

          Template for endorsement:

             3a. Full name of the endorser:
             3b. E-mail address of the endorser:
             3c. Full name of the accepted nominee
                 you wish to endorse:
                 (specific statements of endorsements
                 may also be submitted and are encouraged)

     Endorsements will be archived at:
     http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/icann-endorsements/Arc02/

  7. All accepted nominees that receive 10 or more endorsements by Friday 20
     September 2002 at 16:00 UTC (18:00 Paris) shall be forwarded to the
     Names Council for selection.

     On 20 September 2002 no later than 22:00 UTC (24:00 Paris), a list of
     the accepted nominees and their endorsements will be published in
     http://www.dnso.org/elections/2002.DNSO-ICANN-nominees.html.

  8. A Watchdog Committee has been formed to police the nomination process
     to help detect and cure any instances of fraudulent activity in
     connection with the nomination process.

     Any instances of fraudulent nominations should be reported to this
     committee at the following email address: ga-watchdog@dnso.org, with a
     copy to the Names Council at council@dnso.org, This committee and the
     Names Council shall have the sole discretion as to how to deal with any
     such reported activity.

     Watchdog Committee list archive is at
     http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/ga-watchdog/Arc00/

     The members of the Watchdog Committee in 2002 election are:
        o Roberto Gaetano
        o Harald Alvestrand
        o Kent Crispin
        o Dany Vandromme
        o Alexander Svensson
        o Izumi Aizu

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