[council] Outgoing Council member - Marilyn Cade

["Bruce Tonkin" <Bruce.Tonkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello All,

This note is to inform you that Marilyn Cade's term on Council as a long
standing representative of the Commercial and Business Users
constituency has concluded, following the recent completion of the
election process within the constituency.

Marilyn has been on the Council since the beginning of the GNSO (and its
predecessor - DNSO), and has made a significant contribution to the GNSO
and ICANN as a whole on a 24/7 basis.   Marilyn has been particularly
helpful to the Council in assisting with the complex logistics of
managing physical meetings of the Council (both at the main ICANN
meetings as well as those meetings between the main meetings).  As an
example, most recently Marilyn was responsible for the successful
dinner/lunch formats we used in Brazil to facilitate more interaction
with the Board and the GAC at a personal level.   Marilyn has been
instrumental in building relationships amongst the leadership of the
GNSO constituencies, between the GNSO and other groups at ICANN, and
between ICANN and other international organisations.   At the policy
level Marilyn has been a very active participant in nearly all task
forces ever created, as well as being a co-chair of the original WHOIS
working group that developed the WHOIS data reminder policy 
(http://www.icann.org/registrars/wdrp.htm ), and the WHOIS Marketing
Restriction Policy (http://www.icann.org/registrars/wmrp.htm). 

I expect that Marilyn will continue to participate in the various
working groups, committees and task forces of the GNSO, but I will ask
the Council at our next meeting to formally acknowledge her contribution
at the Council level through a vote of thanks.

Regards,
Bruce Tonkin