Candidates:

• 2003/03/03 Barbara Simons, North America, statement
• 2003/03/04 Alejandro Pisanty, Latin America and Caribbean, statement
• 2003/03/04 Philip Sheppard, Europe, statement
• 2003/03/06 Michael Palage statement

GNSO Council members eligible to vote and a majority:

There are 3 members per GNSO Constituency for 6 Constituencies. The members of gTLD Registries and Registrars cast two votes each, the members of Business, ISPCP, IPC and NCUC cast one vote each. Only the existing eighteen members of the GNSO Council are entitled to vote, so there are a total of 24 votes to be cast and a majority is 13.

Voters:

1. gTLD Registries, NorthA (.us) - Jeff Neuman
2. gTLD Registries, Europe (.se) - Cary Karp
3. gTLD Registries, AsiaPac (.nz) - Jordyn Buchanan
4. Registrars, NorthA (.us) - Ken Stubbs
5. Registrars, Europe (.de) - Thomas Keller
6. Registrars, AsiaPac (.au) - Bruce Tonkin
7. Business, AsiaPac (.jo) - Charles Shaban (replacing Philip Sheppard, candidate from Europe (.uk)
8. Business, NorthA (.us) - Marilyn Cade
9. Business, AsiaPac (.nz) - Grant Forsyth
10. ISPCP, LatinAC (.ar) - Antonio Harris
11. ISPCP, Europe (.uk) - Tony Holmes
12. ISPCP, NorthAm (.us) - Greg Ruth
13. NCUC, AsiaPac (.kr) - Eung Hwi Chun
14. NCUC, NorthAm (.us) - Milton Mueller
15. NCUC, LatinAC (.ar) - Gabriel Piñeiro
16. Intellectual Property, NorthA (.us) - J. Scott Evans
17. Intellectual Property, Europe (.fr) - Laurence Djolakian
18. Intellectual Property, AsiaPac (.il) - Ellen Shankman

Record of votes and results:

First round

Timeline

1. 06 Mar 2003, 15:00 UTC - First-round ballot distributed by secretariat
2. 13 Mar 2003, 15:00 UTC - All ballots from first round must be returned to secretariat
3. 13 Mar 2003, 18:00 UTC - Secretariat announces results of first-round ballot

After the 1st round of voting the following votes were registered:

1. Michael Palage 14 votes
2. Alejandro Pisanty 6 votes
3. Philip Sheppard 4 votes
4. Barbara Simons 0 votes

Total 24 votes

The votes were cast as follows (the codes below match those on the ballots the voters received; each voter can ascertain that his or her vote was counted correctly):

K13b4Z:[x] Alejandro Pisanty
K21c2Z:[x] Alejandro Pisanty
K32a6Z:[x] Michael Palage
K4f9fZ:[x] Philip Sheppard
K547aZ:[x] Alejandro Pisanty
K6872Z:[x] Michael Palage
K7068Z:[x] Alejandro Pisanty
K8713Z:[x] Philip Sheppard
K887bZ:[x] Michael Palage
K909aZ:[x] Michael Palage
K9471Z:[x] Michael Palage
Ka470Z:[x] Michael Palage
Kab9fZ:[x] Michael Palage
Kac13Z:[x] Philip Sheppard
Kc323Z:[x] Alejandro Pisanty
Ke63cZ:[x] Alejandro Pisanty
Kt9a7Z:[x] Michael Palage
Kz52dZ:[x] Philip Sheppard

More details at: http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/council/Arc12/msg00200.html.

As Mr Michael Palage had a majority of the votes cast no further rounds were necessary

Ratification of vote:

On the Council teleconference held on 17 April 2003.

http://www.dnso.org/elections/2003.GNSO-ICANN-seat14-notification.html

Full record on who voted for whom:

Marilyn Cade       [x] Alejandro Pisanty
J. Scott Evans     [x] Alejandro Pisanty
Jordyn Buchanan    [x] Michael Palage
Laurence Djolakian [x] Philip Sheppard
Greg Ruth          [x] Alejandro Pisanty
Milton Mueller     [x] Michael Palage
Antonio Harris     [x] Alejandro Pisanty
Grant Forsyth      [x] Philip Sheppard
Cary Karp          [x] Michael Palage
Jeff Neuman        [x] Michael Palage
Ken Stubbs         [x] Michael Palage
Bruce Tonkin       [x] Michael Palage
Eung Hwi Chun      [x] Michael Palage
Tony Holmes        [x] Philip Sheppard
Ellen Shankman     [x] Alejandro Pisanty
Gabriel Pineiro    [x] Alejandro Pisanty
Thomas Keller      [x] Michael Palage
Charles Shaban     [x] Philip Sheppard