<div>+1 in support, Ram.</div><div><br></div><div>Rinalia</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Thu, 23 Feb 2017 at 8:04 PM, Ram Mohan &lt;<a href="mailto:rmohan@afilias.info">rmohan@afilias.info</a>&gt; wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" class="gmail_msg"><div class="m_393695467085642944WordSection1 gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><a name="m_393695467085642944__MailEndCompose" class="gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif;color:#1f497d" class="gmail_msg">Dear UA-Folks:</span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif;color:#1f497d" class="gmail_msg">First off, thank you for re-nominating me to the Chair of this community initiative! I’m pleased and honored to serve this second and last term.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif;color:#1f497d" class="gmail_msg"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif;color:#1f497d" class="gmail_msg">Second, I’m so impressed at the enthusiasm and the energy from community members for the Vice Chair position. Six people want to volunteer their time and energy to build momentum for the UA initiative – that’s phenomenal!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif;color:#1f497d" class="gmail_msg"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif;color:#1f497d" class="gmail_msg">May I suggest that we accept <b class="gmail_msg">all six</b> volunteers to the position, and do away with a vote? I know that I could use the help, and I also know that corralling the energies of these six individuals, all of whom who have already participated and made material contributions to the UA initiative, will be a worthwhile enterprise.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif;color:#1f497d" class="gmail_msg"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif;color:#1f497d" class="gmail_msg">If you agree with my proposal (or have a different point of view), please post back to the list. If we can hear some consensus on my proposed approach, then we’ll take the administrative steps to having 6 vice-chairs ratified.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif;color:#1f497d" class="gmail_msg"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif;color:#1f497d" class="gmail_msg">Regards,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif;color:#1f497d" class="gmail_msg">Ram </span></p><div class="gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif;color:#1f497d" class="gmail_msg">------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span></p><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif;color:#1f497d" class="gmail_msg">Ram Mohan</span></p><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif;color:#1f497d" class="gmail_msg">o: +1.215.706.5700 x103; m: +1.215.431.0958; f: +1.215.706.5701</span></p><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif;color:#1f497d" class="gmail_msg">Skype:gliderpilot30 |@rmohan123|<a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/rmohan" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">www.linkedin.com/in/rmohan</a></span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif;color:#1f497d" class="gmail_msg"> </span></p><div class="gmail_msg"><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #e1e1e1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in" class="gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><b class="gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif" class="gmail_msg">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif" class="gmail_msg"> Don Hollander [mailto:<a href="mailto:don.hollander@icann.org" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">don.hollander@icann.org</a>] <br class="gmail_msg"><b class="gmail_msg">Sent:</b> Thursday, February 23, 2017 1:45 PM<br class="gmail_msg"><b class="gmail_msg">To:</b> ua-discuss &lt;<a href="mailto:UA-discuss@icann.org" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">UA-discuss@icann.org</a>&gt;<br class="gmail_msg"><b class="gmail_msg">Subject:</b> [UA-discuss] Election update...</span></p></div></div></div></div><div lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" class="gmail_msg"><div class="m_393695467085642944WordSection1 gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"> </p><div class="gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg">A quick update on the election process:</p><div class="gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"> </p></div><div class="gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg">There was one accepted nomination for Chair:  Ram Mohan.  So, Ram continues in the role for another two years.   Congratulations.</p></div><div class="gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"> </p></div><div class="gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg">There were six accepted nominations for the three positions of Vice-Chair:</p></div><div class="gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"> </p></div><div class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span style="font-family:&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,serif;color:#454545" class="gmail_msg">Vice-Chair - Edmon Chung</span></p></div><div class="gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span style="font-family:&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,serif;color:#454545" class="gmail_msg">Vice-Chair - Ajay Data</span></p></div><div class="gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span style="font-family:&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,serif;color:#454545" class="gmail_msg">Vice-Chair - Christian Dawson</span></p></div><div class="gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span style="font-family:&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,serif;color:#454545" class="gmail_msg">Vice-Chair - Jothan Frakes</span></p></div><div class="gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span style="font-family:&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,serif;color:#454545" class="gmail_msg">Vice-Chair - Rich Merdinger</span></p></div><div class="gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span style="font-family:&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,serif;color:#454545" class="gmail_msg">Vice-Chair - Mark Svancarek</span></p></div><div class="gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span style="font-family:&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,serif;color:#454545" class="gmail_msg"> </span></p></div><div class="gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span style="font-family:&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,serif;color:#454545" class="gmail_msg">I am currently gathering materials from the candidates.  Should be done in the next day.</span></p></div><div class="gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span style="font-family:&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,serif;color:#454545" class="gmail_msg"> </span></p></div><div class="gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span style="font-family:&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,serif;color:#454545" class="gmail_msg">Then, I’ll send a link to voting to all subscribers of this UA discuss list (as of the beginning of this week)</span></p></div><div class="gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span style="font-family:&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,serif;color:#454545" class="gmail_msg"> </span></p></div><div class="gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span style="font-family:&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,serif;color:#454545" class="gmail_msg">Voting will be available for a week and then we should have a decision.</span></p></div><div class="gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span style="font-family:&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,serif;color:#454545" class="gmail_msg"> </span></p></div><div class="gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span style="font-family:&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,serif;color:#454545" class="gmail_msg">Don</span></p></div><div class="gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span style="font-family:&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,serif;color:#454545" class="gmail_msg"> </span></p></div><div class="gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span style="font-family:&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,serif;color:#454545" class="gmail_msg"> </span></p></div><div class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg">Don Hollander</p><div class="gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg">Universal Acceptance Steering Group</p></div><div class="gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg">Skype: don_hollander</p></div></div><div class="gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"> </p></div><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"> </p></div><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"> </p></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div>