Nomination of Candidates:
Open: 25.09.2007 at 00:00 UTC
Close: 09.10.2007 at 00:00 UTC
For other places see world clock
1. Following the resignation of Bernard Turcotte from the ccNSO Council one candidate from the North American region shall be elected to the ccNSO Council to replace Bernard Turcotte until the expiry of the term in early 2010.
2. Call for nominations
The bylaws Section 4, Membership. Paragraph 8 state:
"Any ccNSO member may nominate an individual to serve as a ccNSO Council member representing the ccNSO member's Geographic Region. Nominations must be seconded by another ccNSO member from the same Geographic Region."
Each member from the North American region can nominate one candidate for election to the ccNSO council and each member from the North American region can second one candidate.
Candidates need be neither resident in the region nor a citizen of a country within the region in which they stand for election.
In order to nominate or second a candidate, a member must have been a member of the ccNSO by 25.09.2007.
Nominations or Seconds should be sent by e-mail to the Nominations Manager at the following e-mail address: ccnso-nominations@icann.org.
If you send a Nomination or Second you will receive an email from ICANN asking you to confirm that you have sent an email to ccnso-nominations@icann.org.
For your Nomination or Second to be valid you MUST respond to the email requesting confirmation.
Archives to be found at: http://forum.icann.org/lists/ccnso-nominations
Please use this template for nominations:
Template for nomination:
1. Full name of the candidate being nominated:
2. E-mail address of the candidate being nominated:
3a. Full name of the nominator:
3b. ccTLD and region of the nominator:
3c. E-mail address of the nominator:
All nominations must be seconded by another ccNSO member from the North American region.
Please use this template for seconding nominations:
Template for seconding a nomination:
1 Full name of nominator whose candidate is being seconded:
2a. Full name of the candidate being seconded:
2b. E-mail address of the candidate being seconded:
3a. Full name of the seconder:
3b. ccTLD and region of the seconder:
3c. E-mail address of the seconder:
Accepting Nominations
The Nominations Manager will confirm the nomination, by sending an e-mail to the candidate requesting their acceptance.
Nominations will be archived at: http://forum.icann.org/lists/ccnso-nominations.
The Nominations Manager shall confirm the list of the Nominees. In the event that a region has more than 1 nominee, an election in that region will be called.