Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 14:32:50 +0100
From: Nigel Roberts
CC: council@dnso.org
Subject: Re: [council] NC teleconference announcement, September 15th 1999

Resolved that:
• 1.Any person nominated by a member of the GA and supported by at least nine other members of the DNSO before October 8th, 1999 will be considered as candidate for ICANN Board membership by the DNSO. The names of the ten nominators should appear on the ballot paper next to the candidate's name.
• 2.A public comment e-mail address will be opened immediatly. All nominations a support for nominations should be sent to this address. Constituencies of teh DNSO may formally support the candidature of one or more persons. The names of any constituencies supporting a candidate should appear on the ballot paper next to the candidates names. A public call for nominations in the GA list and other ICANN lists will be done as soon as the list is set up.
• 4.The election will take place by secret ballot between october 8th and october 15th, 1999. Each member of the Names Council will cast votes by preferential voting. (i.e. by ordering candidates in order of preference: (1..2..3 etc) Votes are to be sent to an email address operated by an independent scrutineer to be chosen by the Names Council. Votes will be published on the Names Council list bearing an identifying number only so that that while the person casting the vote may not be identifiable, he or she can verify that his or her vote was correctly recorded.
• 5. The count will be conducted by an independent third pary using a recognised method of counting preferential voting elections.
• 6 After the closing of the voting period, the independent Retuning Officer will send to the Names Council an ordered list of the Candidates ranked according to the support they receive.
• 7. That the Names Council select from this ordered list the names of three people taking principally into account the support they received in the ballot, and additionally the requirements of the ICANN By-Laws for the time being in force and the need for diversity of representation.
• 8. That a resolution proposing these three people as the ICANN Board Members for the DNSO be put to the Names Council. If this resolution passes and that those in favour comprise more that half of the Names Council for the time being, those three person be delclared duly elected.
• 9.In case the nomination process does not yield three valid candidates, thr Names Council shall co-opt one or more persons who have indicated their willingness to serve as ICANN Board Member to fill any vacancy(-ies) caused by the lack of valid candidates.
• 10.The Names Council will send to the ICANN Board names of its elected representatives as soon as their names are known, either one at a time or together.