<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Election season is upon us once again!<div><br></div><div>According to NCUC's charter, we elect all of the NCUC Executive Committee regional representatives and chair each year.</div><div><br></div><div>All terms are 1-year and begin at the conclusion of the December ICANN meeting in Cartagena. </div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">SIX NCUC ELECTIONS:</span></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">NCUC Executive Representatives (current rep):</span></div><div>1. Africa (Alex Gakuru)</div><div>2. Asia (David Cake)</div><div>3. Europe (Konstantinos Komaitis)</div><div>4. North America (Brenden Kuerbis)</div><div>5. South America (Carlos Affonso Pierra de Souza)</div><div><br></div><div>All of the above existing regional Executive Committee reps are in their 1st term and are eligible for re-election (should they chose to stand).<br><br></div><div>6. NCUC Chair (Robin Gross)</div><div><br></div><div>In my 2nd term as NCUC Chair, I'm eligible for re-election, but I've decided not to run for re-election as it is an opportunity for new leadership to emerge and non-commercial users to grow its leadership base more deeply and broadly.</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">*Tentative Proposed Schedule*:</span></div><div><br></div><div>11 October: Nominations Open<br> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div>24 October: Nominations Close</div><div>26 October: NCSG Open Policy Meeting (candidate discussion - final ballot)</div><div>28 October: Elections Begin</div><div>11 November: Elections End</div></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div>11 December: Term Begins</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">*Note: I've asked ICANN for technical help in holding these online elections as they are getting bigger and more unwieldy for us to manage as the membership grows and I haven't heard back yet. So this is a very TENTATIVE schedule and pending those discussions with ICANN.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">As with the 2 GNSO Council seats, both self-nominations and nominations of others are acceptable. Nominations should be made to this public list and accepted before the close of the nominating period to be eligible for the ballot.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Let the NCUC Executive Committee nominations begin!!</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><div><br></div></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Thank you,</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Robin</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><br></div><div>IP JUSTICE</div><div>Robin Gross, Executive Director</div><div>1192 Haight Street, San Francisco, CA 94117 USA</div><div>p: +1-415-553-6261 f: +1-415-462-6451</div><div>w: <a href="http://www.ipjustice.org">http://www.ipjustice.org</a> e: <a href="mailto:robin@ipjustice.org">robin@ipjustice.org</a></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></div></body></html>