ALAC board liaison elections - 07/08

[Milton L Mueller]

Robert:
Thanks for the report. This is good news.  Nationalistic considerations
aside (which I think are  b.s., by the way) I believe that Michael Geist
would be a great Nomcom person.


Milton Mueller, Professor
Syracuse University 
School of Information Studies
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[mailto:NCUC-DISCUSS at LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of Robert Guerra
Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 9:08 AM
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Subject: [NCUC-DISCUSS] ALAC board liaison elections - 07/08

A short note to let you all know that the ICANN at-large advisory  
committee recently voted to elect its liaison to the board. the two  
candidates were Vittorio Bertola & Wendy Seltzer.

For reasons that I can't quite explain,  results were delayed  for  
about a week. However, when the were - the results were clear - Wendy  
won by a clear majority. Her appointment will take effect, I believe  
at the next ICANN meeting in LA.

On a related note - that of appointments to Nomcom. The At-large  
advisory committee appoints 5 members to the committee. One per  
region. The process could have been more transparent - in fact,  
that's one of the processes i'm hoping can be better coordinated with  
NCUC in the future.

That being said... Wendy was also a candidate for one of the North  
American ALAC nomcom slots. She's withdrawing her name from that  
process. The remaining list of names that are being considered are  
listed below .

https://st.icann.org/naralo/index.cgi? 
na_nominating_committee_candidates_2007


     * Hugh Dierker [USA]
           o current chair of the GNSO's General Assembly
                 + Proposed by Danny Younger
                 + Confirmed
     * Michael Geist [Canada]
           o Professor, University of Ottawa Law School
                 + Proposed by Robert Guerra
                 + Contacted at CIRA annual meeting (Sept 6, 2007)
                 + Will shortly reply if interested.
                 + Bio: Brief Bio, Complete CV
     * Evan Leibovich [Canada]
           o ALS Representative, CLUE (Canada)
                 + Proposed by Beau & Robert
                 + Confirmed

With Wendy's name out of the running, i'm personally in favor of a  
Canadian. My first preference is Michael Geist (if he's willing),  
followed by Evan Leibovich .



regards,

Robert
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