ICANN: Call for Nominations to ICANN Board of Directors

Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to announce a call for nominations to the ICANN Board of 
Directors (see below)

In our effort to reach as many interested parties as possible you may 
receive multiple copies of this message. Please accept our apologies for this.

The call for nominations for ICANN Board of Directors for the RIPE NCC Service 
Region can also be found under the ICANN and ASO current issues section of the 
RIPE NCC Web site at:

http://www.ripe.net/info/ncc/icann.html

Regards, 

Paul Rendek
Communications Officer, RIPE NCC


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CALL FOR NOMINATIONS FOR ICANN BOARD OF DIRECTORS - RIPE NCC Service Region 

Amsterdam, 4 October 1999

This is an open call for nominations of interested individuals to serve on the 
Board of Directors of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers 
(ICANN), as a nominee of the ICANN Address Supporting Organisation (ASO).

The ASO will have the responsibility for nominating three ICANN Directors. 
This responsibility will, in the normal course of events, be conducted through 
an open process as outlined in the draft Memorandum of understanding as 
published at the following URL.

     http://www.ripe.net/info/ncc/mou-draft.html 

For the initial ASO nominations to the ICANN Board, the ASO Address Council 
will nominate three Directors to serve terms of 1, 2, and 3 years. This 
process has been initiated by the Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) through 
this open call for nominations. The process of selecting the initial ICANN 
Directors from the ASO nominations will be defined and managed by the Address 
Council.


ASO Process for Nominating ICANN Directors

Any individual may be nominated within this process, with the exception of any 
official of a national government or a multinational entity established by 
treaty or other agreement between national governments (ICANN ByLaws Art. V., 
Sec 5.). Self-nominations are permitted.

However, no member of staff of an RIR is eligible to be appointed to the ICANN 
Board, and no ASO-appointed Director may serve simultaneously on the Address 
Council. The Directors appointed by the ASO will not represent the ASO on the 
Board, but will function as full Directors of ICANN.

Nominations are to be sent by email to:

     nominations at ripe.net

The information included with the nomination is to be in English, and should 
include:

          Name of Nominee 
          Organisation 
          E-mail Address 
          Postal Address 
          Phone Number 
          Motivation for Nomination 
          Nominated by 
          Organisation 
          E-mail Address 

All nominations are to be emailed to the above address on or before Sunday, 17 
October 1999.

All nominees will be contacted via email and must explicitly confirm their 
nomination if they are interested in serving as an ICANN
Director. If the nominee cannot be contacted via email then the nomination 
will not be confirmed.

All confirmed nominations will be listed on the RIPE NCC Web site.

Supporting Comments for individual nominees should be sent to:

     nominations at ripe.net

The list of nominated individuals and supporting comments made on their behalf 
will be submitted to the Address Council on Friday, 22 October 1999.

Important dates:

17 October 1999: deadline for ICANN Board of Directors Nominations
22 October 1999: list of nominations submitted to Address Council