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.

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-procedures@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.