<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Hello everyone<div><br></div><div>Sorry to be slow to get this out but it’s complete madness here at ICANN BA, a frenzy of rushing between meetings and conversations and tidal waves of Skype and mail. Very distracting.</div><div><br></div><div>Like others who’ve responded I’m very happy to see that nominations of great candidates continue to come in. This phase of the election process concludes end of tomorrow Tuesday 19th (anywhere on earth), so if there are others planned please don’t wait to get them in.</div><div><br></div><div>Here’s where we are then:</div><div><br></div><div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-family: Palatino-Roman;">Position<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span>Nominees<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span>Nominator</div><div style="font-family: Palatino-Roman;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Palatino-Roman;"><div>1. Chair <span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span>Bill Drake*<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span>David Cake (12.11.13)<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><br><br></div><div>2. EC – Europe<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span>Tapani Tarvainen*<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span>Kate Smith-Lawrence (08.11.13)</div><div><br></div><div><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span>Stefania Milan<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span>Self <span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">(12.11.13)</span><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div><div><br></div><div><font face="Palatino-Roman">3. EC - Africa</font><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><font face="Palatino-Roman">Hago Dafalla<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></font>Self (08.11.13)</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Grace Githaiga <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Rafik Dammak (18.11.13)</div><div><br></div><div>4. EC – Asia and the Pacific<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span>Peter Green (aka Zuan Zhang 张 钻)<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span>*<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span>Self (10.11.13)</div><div><br></div><div><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><font face="Palatino-Roman">Imran Ahmed Shah<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></font>Self (09.11.13)</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Walid Al-Saqaf<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Brenden Kuerbis (18.11.13)</div><div><br></div><div>5. EC – North America<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span>Roy Balleste<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Brenden Kuerbis (13.11.13)</div><div><br></div><div><font face="Palatino-Roman">6. EC – Latin America</font><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Carlos Affonso Pereira de Souza (Jr.)<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span>Carlos Afonso (Sr.) (11.11.13)</span></div><div><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><br></span></div><div><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><br></span></div><div><div>Again, the timetable:</div><div><div><br></div><div><div>November 6 - 19 (Constituency Day in Buenos Aires): Nominations submitted to ncuc-discuss </div><div>November 20 - December 3: Candidates respond to nominations and submit statements to ncuc-discuss </div><div>December 4 − 17: Election period </div><div>December 18: Results announced</div></div></div></div><div><br></div><div>Best</div><div><br></div><div>Bill</div></div></div></div><div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Palatino; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Palatino; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Palatino; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Palatino; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">**********************************************************<br>William J. Drake<br>International Fellow & Lecturer<br> Media Change & Innovation Division, IPMZ<br> University of Zurich, Switzerland<br>Chair, Noncommercial Users Constituency, <br> ICANN, <a href="http://www.ncuc.org">www.ncuc.org</a><br><a href="mailto:william.drake@uzh.ch">william.drake@uzh.ch</a> (w), <a href="mailto:wjdrake@gmail.com">wjdrake@gmail.com</a> (h),<br> <a href="http://www.williamdrake.org">www.williamdrake.org</a><br>***********************************************************</div></div></div></div>
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