[announce] Call for Nominations for the election of a Chair to the General Assembly elected by the Names Council of the DNSO

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  Call for Nominations for the election of a Chair to the General Assembly
                  elected by the Names Council of the DNSO
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November 11th, 1999.



           Call for Nominations for the election of a Chair to the
          General Assembly elected by the Names Council of the DNSO



        The Bylaws of ICANN request that the Names Council elects a
        Chair to the General Assembly. Under Article VI-B, Section 4
        of the Bylaws (http://www.icann.org/general/bylaws.htm):

             (a) The GA shall be an open forum for
             participation in the work of the DNSO, and open to
             all who are willing to contribute effort to the
             work of the DNSO. The participants in the GA
             should be individuals who have a knowledge of and
             an interest in issues pertaining to the areas for
             which the DNSO has primary responsibility, and who
             are willing to contribute time, effort and
             expertise to the work of the DNSO, including work
             item proposal and development, discussion of work
             items, draft document preparation, and
             participation in research and drafting committees
             and working groups.

             (b) The GA shall meet at least once a year, if
             possible in conjunction with regularly scheduled
             meetings of the Board. To the maximum extent
             practicable, all meetings should be available for
             online attendance as well as physical attendance.

             (c) The costs of GA meetings shall be the
             responsibility of the DNSO, which may levy an
             equitable, cost-based fee on GA attendees to
             recoup those costs. There shall be no other fees
             required to participate in the GA.

             (d) Participants in the GA shall nominate,
             pursuant to procedures adopted by the NC and
             approved by the Board, persons to serve on the
             Board in those seats reserved for the DNSO.

        The Names Council has resolved that the first elections for
        such Chair of the General Assembly will take place between

             the December 11th and the 17th of December, 1999.

        Candidates for this election may be nominated between

             the 26th of November 1999 and the 10th of December 1999.

        The Names Council will elect one Chair to the General
        Assembly who will serve for a period of one year.
        Afterwards, a Chair will be elected every year to replace
        the Chair whose term has expired.

        The Names Council hereby requests that the General Assembly
        come up with nomination procedures for nominating candidates
        for election to the Chair of the General Assembly, and that
        it submit proposals to the Names Council at
        ga-procedure@dnso.org no later than November 19th, 1999.

        The nomination mechanism adopted by the Names Council and to
        be used to nominate the Chair of the General Assembly will
        be posted in the DNSO website no later than November 26th.

        Nominations pursuant to the nomination mechanism adopted by
        the Names Council must be sent by e-mail to
        ga-nominations@dnso.org between the 26th of November 1999
        and the 10th of December 1999 (18:00 CET, see for local time
        in other places). Any and all emails relating to the
        nomination and election of the Chair of the General Assembly
        will be published in the www.dnso.org website. Any mail sent
        to any other e-mail address will not be considered.