[council] Carl Bildt - Declines Nomination

[Dennis Jennings <Dennis.Jennings@ucd.ie>]

Bret and Colleagues,

<Sincere apologies for the multiple postings>

I have just spoken to Carl Bildt (who was in Rome airport on his 
way back from Kosovo).  He notes the decision by the ICANN 
lawyers and, as a result, he regretfully declines the nomination.  

He would like to thank everyone who supported him.

I agreed with Carl that we would explore the decision of the ICANN 
Board to see whether in the future a more relaxed view of the rules 
could be taken - especially in cases like his. (He is a UN 
consultant Special Envoy to Kofi Annan who is involved in policy 
relating to the reconstruction of devastated countries like Kosovo, 
with little if any telecommunications infrastructure - let alone 
Internet capabilities).

If we are successful, Carl Bildt may consider making himself 
available as a candidate for election by the At Large membership.

Thanks
Dennis


Date sent:      	Fri, 08 Oct 1999 11:53:03 -0700
From:           	"Bret A. Fausett" <baf@fausett.com>
Subject:        	Re: [ga] Close of nominations for the election of ICANN Board	members
To:             	ga@dnso.org

> All, and specifically NC members,
> 
> I understand that there has was some confusion about the ability of Carl
> Bildt to stand for election, given his responsibilities as a UN special
> peace envoy to the Balkans.
> 
> The ICANN bylaws prohibit the election of "government officials whose
> primary function with such government or entity is to develop or influence
> governmental or public policies." Based on the limited information I have
> about Mr. Bildt's current responsibilities, I do not believe he would not
> be prohibited from running, as he is not "developing" or "influencing"
> policy.
> 
> I further understand that Mr. Bildt had refrained from accepting the
> nomination until the issue of his ability to stand for election had been
> sorted out. If this is true, then I would suggest adding Mr. Bildt to the
> list below, contingent on a determination that he is eligible to serve.
> The process seems to have suffered from the lack of a credentials
> committee able to pass on his standing, and his nomination should not be
> held up because of that.
> 
> It would be a shame to lose a candidate of Mr. Bildt's stature because of
> our collective inability to address the complicated and novel issue of his
> standing on the shortened time scale. If I am incorrect on any of the
> above, please let me know.
> 
>        -- Bret
> 
> > [To: council@dnso.org]
> > [To: announce@dnso.org, ga@dnso.org]
> >
> > [from http://www.dnso.org/dnso-icann-nominees.html]
> >
> > ICANN/DNSO
> >
> >                       DNSO nominees and their supports
> >                     DNSO election of ICANN Board members
> >
> >      Close of nominations for the election of ICANN Board members:
> >
> >      The list icann-nominations@dnso.org was closed on October 8th, 18:30 CET.
> >      Since then all e-mails sent to that list return to the sender with a
> >      Delivery Report "User unknown".
> >
> >      As of Oct 8th, 18:00 CET the dnso.org server is up and running since 43
> >      days, without any interruption, if any difficulties arrised to send an
> >      e-mail to icann-nominations@dnso.org, the reasons were outside the
> >      dnso.org server itself.
> >
> >      Six (6) messages arrived to the dnso.org server between 18:00 and 18:30
> >      CET, and were recorded. All are indicated with (*) mark at the end of a
> >      corresponding line.
> >
> >      Fourteen (14) nominees get the support from at least ten (10) different
> >      persons and send the acceptance of a nomination.
> >
> >      All five (5) geographic regions are represented: Africa (1), AsiaPac
> >      (2), Europe (3), LatinAC (2), NorthA (6).
> >
> >      Candidates in alphabetical order:
> >
> >        1. Amadeu Abril i Abril (Europe)
> >        2. Karl Auerbach (NorthA)
> >        3. Jonathan Cohen (NorthA)
> >        4. Peter Dengate-Thrush (AsiaPac)
> >        5. David W. Maher (NorthA)
> >        6. Naomasa Maruyama (AsiaPac)
> >        7. Alejandro Pisanty (LatinAC)
> >        8. Nii Quaynor (Africa)
> >        9. Dan Steinberg (NorthA)
> >       10. Donald N. Telage (NorthA)
> >       11. Stefano Trumpy (Europe)
> >       12. Edmundo Valenti (LatinAC)
> >       13. Dany Vandromme (Europe)
> >       14. Rick White (NorthA)
> >
> >   ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> >                  Information from:  © DNSO Names Council
> >
> >
> 


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Dennis M. Jennings
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