Nomination of Candidates:
Open: 31 August 2010 at 00:00 UTC
Close: 21 September 2010 at 00:00 UTC
1. One candidate per "Geographic Region": Europe; Asia Pacific; Latin America/Caribbean islands; Africa; and North America shall be elected to the ccNSO Council
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 can nominate one candidate for election to the ccNSO council and each member can second one candidate.
Candidates do not need to be resident in the region or 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 31 August 2010.
Nominations or Seconds should be sent by e-mail to the Nominations Manager at the following e-mail address: ccnso-nominations@icann.org.
PLEASE NOTE: 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 Region for which nomination is being made:
2a. Full name of the candidate being nominated:
2b. 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 in the same region
Please use this template for seconding nominations:
Template for seconding a nomination:
1. Full name of nominator whose candidate is being seconded:
2. Full name 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.