[council] GNSO Council Chair proposed election schedules

[Mawaki Chango]

Option B looks fine, if not better, to me as well.

Mawaki

--- "GNSO.SECRETARIAT at GNSO.ICANN.ORG"
<gnso.secretariat at gnso.icann.org> wrote:

> [To: council[at]gnso.icann.org]
> 
> Dear Councillors,
> 
> The process followed in the past for the election of the GNSO
> Council
> Chair has been a call for nominations open for a period of two
> weeks.
> 
> All nominations should be seconded by the end of this period,
> and only
> GNSO Council members are eligible to make nominations and
> second them.
> 
> The voting period is usually open for 14 days.
> Voting will take place by secret e-mail ballot. Ballots will
> be sent out
> individually to each GNSO Council members' e-mail address. The
> same
> procedure that has taken place for the ICANN Board seat #13
> elections.
> 
> There will be a total of 27 votes cast and a majority is 14 or
> more.
> In case of a tie, there will be a second round of voting.
> 
> When the e-mail vote is closed, the results will be announced
> for each
> council member to check that her/his vote was correctly
> registered and
> the results of the e-mail vote will be confirmed at a GNSO
> Council meeting.
> 
> All GNSO Council members are eligible to vote, that is, 3
> representatives from each constituency, Registrars, gTLD
> registries,
> Commercial and Business Users (CBUC), Non Commercial Users
> (NCUC),
> Intellectual Property (IPC), and Internet Service Providers
> and
> Connectivity Providers (ISPCP) and the 3 Nominating Committee
> appointees. Liaisons from the ALAC and the GAC do not vote.
> 
> There are two options for a proposed election schedule.
> (Option A is the quickest but gives only 1 working day for
> pre-election
> discussion before nominations are due. Option B allows for  9
> working
> days discussion which may be better).
> 
> A. Call for nominations: Tuesday 17 April to Tuesday 1 May
> 2007
>     Voting period: Monday 7 May to Monday 21 May 2007.
>     Announce the results 22 May 2007
> Confirm the vote at the scheduled GNSO Council meeting on 24
> May 2007
> 
> B. Call for nominations: Friday 27 April to Friday 11 May 2007
>     Voting period: Wednesday 16 to Wednesday 30 May
>     Announce the results 31 May 2007
> Confirm results at scheduled GNSO Council meeting on 7 June
> 2007.
> 
> Please let me have your comments.
> 
> Thank you.
> kind regards,
> 
> Glen
> 
> Glen de Saint Géry
> GNSO Secretariat - ICANN
> gnso.secretariat[at]gnso.icann.org
> http://gnso.icann.org
> 
> 
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