[council] Notification of DNSO NC selection of the ICANN Board member

[Elisabeth Porteneuve <Elisabeth.Porteneuve@cetp.ipsl.fr>]

Names Council,

Below is a notification confirming the selection result of  the
DNSO ICANN board candidate that will be forwarded to the ICANN Board.

Today short NC teleconference was attended by 10 NC members:
      ISPCP Constituency: Michael Schneider
      Business Constituency: Masanobu Katoh
      Registrars Constituency: Ken Stubbs, Paul Kane
      ccTLD Constituency: Patricio Poblete
      IP Constituency: Caroline G. Chicoine, Guillermo Carey
      NCDNH Constituency: Youn Jung Park, Dany Vandromme
      gTLD Constituency: Roger Cochetti
The motion with the text of notification to be sent to the ICANN
Board was moved on by Ken Stubbs and seconded by Masanobu Katoh.
This motion was unanimously approved by all 10 present, its
text is attached below.
Dr Nii N. Quaynor from ccTLD had join at 14:20

The NC will consider to review voting procedures, among others
will plan to have some teleconferences with nominated candidates,
few weeks prior to the selection itself.

All NC members were requested to participate in the current 
DNSO Review process, initiated after Yokohama meetings, with
Pindar Wong and Alejandro Pisanty from ICANN Executive Committee acting
as the liaison between the EC and the NC on the DNSO review project.

The whole selection process took 8 weeks. Five candidates were
nominated, one withdrawn. The remining 4 received 256 endorsements.

Thank you for the time you dedicated to be on calls (sometimes 
in the very early morning, or late at night, or conflicting with
your other occupations) and for your work together for the 
benefit of the whole DNSO community.

Elisabeth
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Text proposed as motion and adopted unaninmously by 10 NC members
present which I am forwarding to ICANN today:

Friday, 15 September 2000
  
  Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
  Board of Directors
  4676 Admiralty Way, Suite 330
  Marina del Rey CA 90292
  
  Cc: Michael Roberts, President and CEO
  
  
  The DNSO Names Council confirms the selection of one DNSO
  representative to the ICANN Board, and hereby presents 
  the selected candidate to the the ICANN Board:
      Jonathan Cohen (Canada; North America region), three years term
  
  The DNSO Names Council confirms that it considers the elections
  to have been fair, that votes were correctly counted, and that 
  the results thereby correctly reflect the voting for the candidate.
  The candidate had the affirmative votes of more than half (1/2)
  of all the members of the NC.
  We wish him success and look forward to co-operating with him.
  
  An independent review and audit of the procedures will be conducted,
  and these results will also be published when the review is complete.

  The Names Council will open to the public the voting records
  subsequent to ICANN receiving and accepting the selected candidate.
  
  Sincerely,
  Elisabeth Porteneuve
  DNSO Secretariat
  on behalf of the DNSO Names Council