<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Andre: FYI we have about 245 subscribers to the list.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Don</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 25/02/2017, at 3:43 AM, Andre Schappo <<a href="mailto:A.Schappo@lboro.ac.uk" class="">A.Schappo@lboro.ac.uk</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">① I am ok with having 6 vice chairs. I think it will be good for this group. The names are familiar to me and they are all people who contribute significantly to UA & i18n</span><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">② How many subscribers does this ua-discuss list have? I am interested in how many people have a direct interest in UA.</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">André Schappo</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 23 Feb 2017, at 19:04, Ram Mohan <<a href="mailto:rmohan@afilias.info" class="" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;">rmohan@afilias.info</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a name="_MailEndCompose" class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Dear UA-Folks:</span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">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></div><div class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">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></div><div class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">May I suggest that we accept<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class="">all six</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>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></div><div class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">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></div><div class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Regards,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Ram</span></div><div class=""><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Ram Mohan</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">o: +1.215.706.5700 x103; m: +1.215.431.0958; f: +1.215.706.5701</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"><a href="skype:gliderpilot30" class="" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;">Skype:gliderpilot30</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>|@rmohan123|<a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/rmohan" class="" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;">www.linkedin.com/in/rmohan</a></span></div></div><div class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class=""><div class="" style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-color: rgb(225, 225, 225); border-top-width: 1pt; padding: 3pt 0in 0in;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">From:</span></b><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Don Hollander [mailto:<a href="mailto:don.hollander@icann.org" class="" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;">don.hollander@icann.org</a>]<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""><b class="">Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Thursday, February 23, 2017 1:45 PM<br class=""><b class="">To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>ua-discuss <<a href="mailto:UA-discuss@icann.org" class="" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;">UA-discuss@icann.org</a>><br class=""><b class="">Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[UA-discuss] Election update...</span></div></div></div><div class=""> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class=""><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">A quick update on the election process:</div><div class=""><div class=""> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div><div class=""><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">There was one accepted nomination for Chair: Ram Mohan. So, Ram continues in the role for another two years. Congratulations.</div></div><div class=""><div class=""> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div><div class=""><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">There were six accepted nominations for the three positions of Vice-Chair:</div></div><div class=""><div class=""> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', serif; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);">Vice-Chair - Edmon Chung</span></div></div><div class=""><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', serif; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);">Vice-Chair - Ajay Data</span></div></div><div class=""><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', serif; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);">Vice-Chair - Christian Dawson</span></div></div><div class=""><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', serif; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);">Vice-Chair - Jothan Frakes</span></div></div><div class=""><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', serif; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);">Vice-Chair - Rich Merdinger</span></div></div><div class=""><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', serif; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);">Vice-Chair - Mark Svancarek</span></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><span class="" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', serif; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div><div class=""><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', serif; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);">I am currently gathering materials from the candidates. Should be done in the next day.</span></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><span class="" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', serif; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div><div class=""><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', serif; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);">Then, I’ll send a link to voting to all subscribers of this UA discuss list (as of the beginning of this week)</span></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><span class="" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', serif; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div><div class=""><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', serif; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);">Voting will be available for a week and then we should have a decision.</span></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><span class="" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', serif; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div><div class=""><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', serif; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);">Don</span></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><span class="" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', serif; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><span class="" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', serif; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Don Hollander</div><div class=""><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Universal Acceptance Steering Group</div></div><div class=""><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Skype: don_hollander</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">
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