<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Councillors,<div><br></div><div>We are going to have to start our election process soon and I would like to determine the Council's preference for the 2 scenarios Glen and I floated to you a while back.</div><div><br></div><div>As a reminder:</div><div><br></div><div>
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Council Chair. Each house is responsible for determining how to nominate its
candidate.” To allow for the possibility of a timely Council election process
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term beginning at the end of the 2011 ICANN annual meeting not later than <strong>12
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the GNSO Secretariat (<a href="mailto:gnso.secretariat@gnso.icann.org">gnso.secretariat@gnso.icann.org</a>)
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nominations Wednesday 7 September until Wednesday 21 September ( 2
weeks)</span></b><strong><u><span lang="EN" style="font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
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Council Chair. Each house is <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>responsible for determining how to nominate its
candidate.” To allow for the possibility of a timely Council election process
in Dakar, each house is asked to submit its <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>nominee for Council chair for the
term beginning at the end of the 2011 ICANN annual meeting not later than
Wednesday, 21 September 2011.</span></p>
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<!--EndFragment--></div><div>It was my understanding that scenario 1 had the Council's preference and I plan to ask Glen to implement that one.</div><div><br></div><div>If there are objections, please voice them quickly.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br><div>
<div>Stéphane</div><div><br></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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