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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Dear RSSAC Caucus Members,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The selection process on the 2025 ICANN Nominating Committee delegate has concluded. RSSAC appointed Erum Welling to serve on the 2025 ICANN Nominating Committee
for a one-year term beginning at the Annual General Meeting in November 2024 (ICANN81), thanking current delegate Rao Naveed Bin Rais for his service in this role.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Ozan Sahin</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Policy </span><span lang="TR" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Development Support Senior </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Specialist</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">From:
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Ozan Sahin <ozan.sahin@icann.org><br>
<b>Date: </b>22 April 2024 Monday 19:57<br>
<b>To: </b>"rssac-caucus@icann.org" <rssac-caucus@icann.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Closing in One Week | Nomination Period: RSSAC Delegate to the ICANN Nominating Committee<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Dear RSSAC Caucus Members,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">This is a reminder about the nomination period for the RSSAC
<span style="color:black">Delegate to the 202</span></span><span lang="TR" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">5</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">ICANN Nominating Committee</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="TR" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> (NomCom).
We have received one self-nomination from Erum Welling so far. Robert Story provided a second for Erum’s nomination.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="TR" style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The nomination period will close at<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>23:59 UTC on Monday, 2</b></span><b><span lang="TR" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">9<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>April
2024</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">. If you would like to be considered for appointment, please indicate your interest on the RSSAC Caucus mailing list before the deadline.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Best,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Ozan Sahin</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Policy </span><span lang="TR" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Development Support Senior </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Specialist</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">From:
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Ozan Sahin <ozan.sahin@icann.org><br>
<b>Date: </b>2 April 2024 Tuesday 13:26<br>
<b>To: </b>"rssac-caucus@icann.org" <rssac-caucus@icann.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Nomination Period: RSSAC Delegate to the ICANN Nominating Committee<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Dear RSSAC Caucus members,</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">It is time to begin the selection process for the RSSAC Delegate to the 202</span><span lang="TR" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">5</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">ICANN Nominating Committee</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="TR" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> (NomCom). </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The
role is a one-year term beginning at the conclusion of the Annual General Meeting to be held during ICANN</span><span lang="TR" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">81 in November 2024</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">.
Please refer to <a href="https://www.icann.org/nomcom2024" title="https://www.icann.org/nomcom2023"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:#0563C1">this page</span></a> for more information about the Nominating Committee. I have
also copied below the relevant sections from “RSSAC000v</span><span lang="TR" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">8</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">: Operational Procedures”
for your reference.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">With this notice, a four-week nomination period via this distribution list is now open. Nominations or self-nominations will be accepted and require a second. Nominees must
then accept or decline their nomination and may provide a statement with more context for their decision. The nomination period will close at<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>23:59 UTC on Monday, 2</b></span><b><span lang="TR" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">9<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>April
2024</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">. The RSSAC will then consider the slate of candidates during its<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>May<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>teleconference.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">As you may recall, ICANN Board approved some of the recommendations coming from the second organizational review of the ICANN NomCom and updated the ICANN Bylaws in October
2023. As a result, RSSAC appointee to the 2025 NomCom will be a voting delegate. In addition, NomCom delegates will serve two-year terms moving forward;
<u>however, RSSAC is among the groups that will start with a one-year term in 2025 NomCom for the purposes of staggering delegate terms</u> -
<a href="https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/governance/bylaws-en/#article27">see section 27.5(a)</a>. Finally, according to the Section 27.5(d) of ICANN Bylaws, “no person who served either or both of the two prior Nominating Committees (with terms ending
at the ICANN Annual General Meeting in 2023 and 2024) is eligible for appointment to the Nominating Committee term commencing at the conclusion of the ICANN Annual General Meeting in 2024.” RSSAC appointed Hiro Hotta and Naveed bin Rais to 2023 and
</span><span lang="TR" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">2024 ICANN NomCom, respectively.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Naveed’s
one-year term will conclude by ICANN</span><span lang="TR" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">81</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">, the Annual General Meeting.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The RSSAC Leadership appreciates your consideration. Please do not hesitate to contact the RSSAC Chair and Vice Chair or support staff with any questions or concerns.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Best,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Ozan Sahin on behalf of</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Jeff Osborn, RSSAC Chair</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Ken
Renard, RSSAC Vice Chair</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">1.2.7.6 Outgoing RSSAC Delegate to the ICANN Nominating Committee</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none"> </span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">The outgoing RSSAC Delegate to the ICANN Nominating Committee is specified in the ICANN Bylaws. The term for the outgoing RSSAC Liaison to the ICANN
Nominating Committee shall be two years. No individual may serve as a delegate for more than two terms. In addition, no individual may serve in consecutive terms. An individual will only be eligible to serve a second term as a delegate on the Nominating Committee
if a minimum of two years has elapsed between the end of their term and the beginning of the term for which they are being selected. The RSSAC must elect the outgoing RSSAC Liaison to the ICANN Nominating Committee according to the outgoing RSSAC liaisons
election procedure (Section 1.2.7.9) from the members of the RSSAC Caucus. The outgoing RSSAC Liaison to the ICANN Nominating Committee acts as a conduit between the RSSAC and the ICANN Nominating Committee reporting on matters that need to be coordinated
or communicated between the two bodies. The role requires discretion, management skills, and considerable time commitment.</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">1.2.7.9 Outgoing RSSAC Liaison Election Procedure</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">One month prior to each election, nominations will be accepted for the outgoing liaison position and announced on the RSSAC distribution list. During the meeting that includes
election of an outgoing liaison position on its announced agenda, additional nominations will be accepted, and all nominees will indicate their intentions: to accept or to decline their nomination.</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The RSSAC uses ranked choice voting, as outlined in Section 1.4.3 for electing outgoing liaison positions. In the event that only one candidate is standing for election, the RSSAC may elect
the new outgoing liaison by acclamation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The RSSAC Chair will forward the name of the outgoing liaison-elect to the reciprocating body.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">If a vacancy exists in an outgoing liaison role, the RSSAC will elect a new outgoing liaison through this process.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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