<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;" class="">Just noting that I am abstaining from discussion as a candidate. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">David</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 21 Oct 2017, at 1:13 am, Tapani Tarvainen <<a href="mailto:ncuc@tapani.tarvainen.info" class="">ncuc@tapani.tarvainen.info</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">Hi Farzaneh,</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">Thank you, and apologies again for missing that. (Not the only</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">thing I've missed during the past couple of weeks.)</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">Perhaps that page would merit more publicity, though.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">Tapani</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 11:53:46AM -0400, farzaneh badii (</span><a href="mailto:farzaneh.badii@gmail.com" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">farzaneh.badii@gmail.com</a><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">) wrote:</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><blockquote type="cite" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><br class="">Hi<br class=""><br class="">we have already used a similar page for this year elections.<br class=""><a href="https://community.icann.org/display/gnsononcomuserconst/Elections+2017" class="">https://community.icann.org/display/gnsononcomuserconst/Elections+2017</a><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">I will just copy paste the important remarks.<br class=""><br class="">*Important Remarks: *<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">*1. For all positions, please select 1 candidate only; if you select more<br class="">than 1 your vote won’t be counted2. You can change your vote until the<br class="">deadline on 05 November 2017, 23:59 UTC. Only the last selection will be<br class="">counted.3. You can vote for all Executive Committee positions regardless of<br class="">what region you are in.4. If you don't select any choice for a seat, the<br class="">vote for that seat will be counted as zero.5. You will receive several<br class="">reminders during the election with the same link to your ballot. The weight<br class="">of your vote is indicated in the ballot (1 for individual, 1 for small<br class="">organisation and 2 for large organisation).6. The candidate with the most<br class="">votes wins. If the abstention count is greater than any candidate for a<br class="">seat, the seat will remain vacant.*<br class=""><br class="">Farzaneh<br class=""><br class="">On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 11:08 AM, hfaiedh ines <hfaiedh.ines2@gmail.com><br class="">wrote:<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Hi Tapani<br class="">Thank you for raising this especially for newcomers who might not know the<br class="">election process. I guess these should all be outlined and explained like<br class="">at previous elections. This is what I found was shared for the 2016 NCUC<br class="">elections and it is quite informative I think.<br class="">https://community.icann.org/m/mobile.action#page/63146309<br class=""><br class="">On Oct 20, 2017 15:30, "Tapani Tarvainen" <ncuc@tapani.tarvainen.info><br class="">wrote:<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Hi Farzaneh,<br class=""><br class="">My apologies if I've missed this earlier, but:<br class=""><br class="">Have you explained somewhere the significance of "Abstain"?<br class="">In particular, does one need to get more votes than Abstain<br class="">in order to get elected, and what happens if someone does not<br class="">select even Abstain for some position.<br class=""><br class="">Also, does selecting multiple options for some slot invalidate<br class="">the ballot for all other positions, too, or just for that slot.<br class=""><br class="">(I don't think it matters much how these are be decided, just that it<br class="">should be done before voting begins and some thought given on whether<br class="">and how they should be explained in the ballot.)<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Tapani<br class=""><br class="">On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 01:09:32PM +0000, farzaneh badii (<br class="">farzaneh.badii@gmail.com) wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class="">Here are the NCUC ballots we need to approve.<br class=""><br class="">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br class="">From: Maryam Bakoshi <maryam.bakoshi@icann.org><br class="">Date: Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 8:49 AM<br class="">Subject: 2017 NCUC Elections Ballot<br class="">To: farzaneh.badii@gmail.com <farzaneh.badii@gmail.com><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Dear Farzaneh/ExCom,<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Please find the 2017 NCUC Elections Ballot. Please kindly review<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">I. NCUC Chair (1-year term)<br class=""><br class="">Please select 1 choice:<br class=""><br class=""> [] Renata Aquino Ribeiro<br class=""><br class=""> [] Farell Folly<br class=""><br class=""> [] David Cake<br class=""><br class=""> [] Kris Seeburn<br class=""><br class=""> [] Abstain<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">II. Five (5) NCUC Executive Committee members<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Europe 1 seat (1-year term)<br class=""><br class="">Please select 1 choice:<br class=""><br class="">[ ] Louise Marie Hurel<br class=""><br class="">[ ] Abstain<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Africa 1 seat (1-year term)<br class=""><br class=""> Please select 1 choice:<br class=""><br class="">[ ] Yolanda Mlonzi<br class=""><br class="">[ ] Ines Hfaiedh<br class=""><br class="">[ ] Abstain<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Asia Pacific 1 seat (1-year term)<br class=""><br class="">Please select 1 choice:<br class=""><br class="">[ ] Elsa Saade<br class=""><br class="">[ ] Zakir Syed<br class=""><br class="">[ ] Abstain<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">North America 1 seat (1-year term)<br class=""><br class="">Please select 1 choice:<br class=""><br class="">[ ] Michael Karanicolas<br class=""><br class="">[ ] Abstain<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Latin America & Caribbean 1seat (1-year term)<br class=""><br class="">Please select 1 choice:<br class=""><br class="">[ ] Bruna Santos<br class=""><br class="">[ ] Abstain<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Note:<br class=""><br class=""> - You cannot pick more than one option on each ballot, if you do<br class=""></blockquote>this,<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""> the system will show you an error and your vote will not be counted.<br class=""> - You can vote more than once, but only the last vote will be taken<br class=""></blockquote>into<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""> account.<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">--<br class=""><br class="">Many thanks,<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">*Maryam Bakoshi | *SO/AC Collaboration Services Sr. Coordinator<br class=""><br class="">*ICANN* | Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers<br class=""><br class="">*S*: Maryam.bakoshi.icann | *T*: +44 7737698036 <+44%207737%20698036><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">--<br class="">Farzaneh<br class=""></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">_______________________________________________</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">NCUC-EC mailing list</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><a href="mailto:NCUC-EC@lists.ncuc.org" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">NCUC-EC@lists.ncuc.org</a><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><a href="https://lists.ncuc.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ncuc-ec" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">https://lists.ncuc.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ncuc-ec</a></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>