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[council] Call for nominations to elect an ICANN Board director
[ To: council@dnso.org ]
[ To: announce@dnso.org, ga@dnso.org ]
[ To: liaison7c@dnso.org
[ Please forward this announcement to the Constitiency mailling lists
in order to reach all DNSO General Assembly members.]
09 August 2002
Dear DNSO Members,
The Names Council is pleased to announce a call for nominations
to elect an ICANN Board Director by the DNSO.
In our effort to reach as many interested parties as possible
we may unavoidably send you more than one copy. Please accept our
apologies for this.
The process to elect an ICANN Board Director is comprised of two parts:
1. Nomination and endorsements of candidates to the ICANN Board
position by the General Assembly of the DNSO
2. Vote by the Names Council to select the ICANN Board Director
The first part lasts 6 weeks:
a. 3 weeks for nominations (and acceptances),
Friday 09 August to Friday 30 August 2002
b. 3 weeks for endorsements
Friday 30 August to Friday 20 September 2002
The second part lasts for a few days.
Please watch carrefully the deadlines, the reference time is given in UTC
(Universal Coordinated Time), for all other places see
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/
Summary:
During the next weeks the DNSO will select its ICANN Board Director
in replacement of Alejandro Pisanty, whose term expires on 30 September
2001.
The new elected Director will serve for a 3 year term.
With regard to geographic diversity rules, the candidates for
election in 2002 shall be citizens from any of 3 regions:
Africa, Asia-Pacific or Europe.
The ICANN Board Director election by the DNSO is described in the
attached main document (and its annexes), which are posted on the website:
1. Main document: Description of the election process in 2002
http://www.dnso.org/elections/2002.DNSO-ICANN-election.html
2. Procedure for nominations, acceptances and endorsements by the GA,
and calendar for 2002:
http://www.dnso.org/elections/2002.DNSO-ICANN-nomination-proc.html
3. A list of nominations, acceptances and their endorsements
will be updated daily at:
http://www.dnso.org/elections/2002.DNSO-ICANN-nominees.html
4. The NC voting procedure:
http://www.dnso.org/elections/2002.DNSO-ICANN-voting-proc.html
The Names Council and the Secretariat are grateful to the GA Watchdog
Committee, which in 2002 includes Roberto Gaetano, Harald Alvestrand,
Kent Crispin, Dany Vandromme, Alexander Svensson and Izumi Aizu.
The GA Watchdog Committee will police the nomination and endorsement
processes to help detect and cure any instances of fraudulent activity
in connection with the nomination and endorsement processes.
DNSO Secretariat
[ cf. http://www.dnso.org/elections/2002.DNSO-ICANN-election.html ]
ICANN/DNSO
DNSO election of ICANN Board member in 2002
ICANN Bylaws
ICANN's Bylaws stipulate that once a year the DNSO elects its member of
the ICANN Board and set forth some additional conditions related to
eligibility and geographic diversity.
ARTICLE V, Section 9 (b) and (c)
(b) Prior to October 1 of each year beginning in the year
2002, each Supporting Organization entitled to select a
Director (other than an Original Director selected by the
Supporting Organization under Section 2 of this Article)
shall (i) make its selection according to the procedures
specified by Article VI (including Articles VI-A, VI-B, and
VI-C), and (ii) give the Board and the Secretary of the
Corporation at least fifteen days written notice of that
selection.
(c) The regular term of office of a Director shall be three
(3) years, [...]
ARTICLE VI, Section 4
No person shall serve simultaneously as (i) a member of any
Supporting Organization Council or other body that is
directly responsible for the selection of Directors by that
Supporting Organization and (ii) a Director or a member of
any other Supporting Organization Council. If a member of any
such Supporting Organization Council or such other body
accepts a nomination to be considered to serve on the Board,
such member shall not, following such acceptance, participate
in any discussion of, or vote by, such Supporting
Organization Council or other body relating to the selection
of Directors by such Council or other body.
ARTICLE VI-B, Section 2 (e)
(e) The NC shall forward to the Board, from among those
persons nominated by the GA, its selection(s) for the
Director(s) to fill any open Board position(s) reserved for
the DNSO. Any such selection(s) must have the affirmative
votes of at least one-half (1/2) of all the members of the
NC. At any given time, no two Directors serving on the Board
selected by the NC shall be citizens of the same country or
of countries located in the same Geographic Region.
Geographic diversity rule applied to year 2002 election
The current ICANN Board comprises three Directors elected by the DNSO:
1. Alejandro Pisanty (Mexico; Latin America/Caribbean Islands region)
(three year term, expires 2002)
2. Jonathan Cohen (Canada; North America region) (three years term,
expires 2003)
3. Amadeu Abril I Abril (Spain; Europe region) (three year term,
expires 2004)
The tenure of Alejandro Pisanty from Latin America/Caribbean region
ends on 30 September 2002. With regard to geographic diversity rules,
the candidates for election in 2002 shall be citizens from any of 3
regions:
- Africa region
- Asia and Pacific region
- Latin America/Caribbean
Procedures for nomination of candidates to the ICANN Board position by
the General Assembly of the DNSO and a timetable
On 1 August 2002 the NC has resolved that the next ICANN Board director
election will take place in August/September 2002.
11. DNSO Board election.
Alejandro Pisanty's tenure ends in September. The NC is urged
to propose candidates for the election which will take place in
September with a view to the new member being in place for
October.
The Secretariat will make the formal call.
The Names Council has resolved to use the same procedures for
nomination, acceptance of nomination and endorsement as the ones used
last year.
The Secretariat has determined the following calendar for nominations:
1. Candidates for year 2002 election may be nominated between the 9
August and 30 August 2002 (3 weeks).
2. Any nominee can express his/her acceptance or declination from the
time he is nominated, until 3 hours after closing the nomination
period.
3. In order to be considered for the ICANN Board selection a nominee
must have the support of, at least, 10 members of the General
Assembly of the DNSO. The endorsement will be received between the
30 August and 20 September 2002 (3 weeks).
The detailed nomination procedures adapted for the ICANN Board election
in 2002 are in
http://www.dnso.org/elections/2002.DNSO-ICANN-nomination-proc.html .
A list of nominations, acceptances and their endorsements will be
permanently updated in
http://www.dnso.org/elections/2002.DNSO-ICANN-nominees.html.
Procedures for vote to be used by the Names Council to select the ICANN
Board Director and a timetable
The Names Council has resolved to use a Convention-Style voting
procedure to select the ICANN Board Director.
The Names Council vote will take place between 20 September and 27
September 2002, by e-mail and during a serie of NC teleconferences.
It is expected that the results will be announced no later than 28
September 2002. The written notification of the selection result will
be sent to the ICANN Board and published on the DNSO web site at the
same date.
The Convention-Stype procedure for the ICANN Board election in 2002 is
in http://www.dnso.org/elections/2002.DNSO-ICANN-voting-proc.html.
Full record of votes
During the Names Council electronic vote between 20 September and 27
September 2002 the public archiving of the council@dnso.org list will
be temporarily stoped.
The full record of votes (who voted for whom) will be discosed at the
end of selection process, after the acceptance of the results by the
ICANN Board. The council@dnso.org list will be reopen at the same time.
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