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<div name="messageBodySection">Councilors -<br>
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Please see below for notification(s) from the Empowered Community Administration. The ECA confirms the two new Directors recently named by NomCom to the ICANN Board.</div>
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Thank you,<br>
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J.<br>
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James Bladel<br>
GNSO Chair<br>
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<b>From:</b> Stephen Deerhake <sdeerhake@nic.as><br>
<b>Date:</b> Sep 5, 2017, 21:28 -0500<br>
<b>To:</b> John Jeffrey <john.jeffrey@icann.org><br>
<b>Cc:</b> ecadmin@icann.org <ecadmin@icann.org>, chair@nro.net <chair@nro.net>, alan.greenberg@mcgill.ca <alan.greenberg@mcgill.ca>, katrina@nic.lv <katrina@nic.lv>, James M. Bladel <jbladel@godaddy.com>, thomas.schneider@bakom.admin.ch <thomas.schneider@bakom.admin.ch>,
Samantha Eisner <Samantha.Eisner@icann.org>, Mary Wong <mary.wong@icann.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Nominating Committee selections for ICANN Board Seats 7 and 8<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">On behalf of the Empowered Community Administration, per Section 6.2(a)(i) of the ICANN Bylaws granting the Empowered Community Administration the powers and rights to (among other things) appoint and remove
individual Directors, please accept the following 2 (two) letters from the Empowered Community Administration confirming the decisions of the ICANN Nominating Committee with respect to ICANN Board seats 7 and 8.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Best Regards,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Stephen Deerhake</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">ccNSO Representative to the Empowered Community Administration</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="mailto:sdeerhake@gdns.net">sdeerhake@gdns.net</a></span></p>
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