<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Seda,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> Thanks for your message.</div><div class=""> One question: How many vice chairs we should select?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> One suggestion: could you kindly make a table and summarise the candidates’ information, such as listing the candidates’ company’s name (affiliations), simple expertises of each candidate, current working locations, promise/working aims,…..</div><div class="">If we have such a table, we can easily select the best candidate for the UA.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best Regards</div><div class="">Jiankang Yao</div><div class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">2023年4月4日 下午10:21，Seda Akbulut via UA-discuss <<a href="mailto:ua-discuss@icann.org" class="">ua-discuss@icann.org</a>> 写道：</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">Dear Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) Community,<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">On behalf of the Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG), we are pleased to share the self-nominations of candidates for the 2023 UASG vice-chair election as per the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" class=""><a href="https://uasg.tech/uasg-charter/" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">UASG charter</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and Election Process available at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" class=""><a href="https://uasg.tech/operational-documents/" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">https://uasg.tech/operational-documents/</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">Candidates (in alphabetical order):<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;" class=""><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">Abdalmonem Galila<o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">Haixin Duan<o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">Nabil_Benamar<o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">Nitin Walia<o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">U B Pavanaja<o:p class=""></o:p></span></li></ul><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; color: red;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">Their Statements of Interest (SOI) are attached.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">The voting period will start on 7th April 2023, and will end on 17th April 2023. Eligible voters, the subscribers of the UA-Discuss mailing list 48 hours<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">before the announcing the call for nominations for the election, should expect an email from<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://eballot.com/" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;" class="">eballot.com</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>when the voting period starts. If you do not receive email from<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://eballot.com/" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;" class="">eballot.com</a>, please check your SPAM folder.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">If you have any queries, feel free to contact us at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" class=""><a href="mailto:info@uasg.tech" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">info@uasg.tech</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">Kind regards,<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">UASG Election Coordination Team<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div></div><span id="cid:DDB5F40C2DA3D14BB2C3299B106F43D0@pexch112.icann.org"><Abdalmonem_Galila_UASG_ViceChair_Self_Nomination.pdf></span><span id="cid:A3C75001A24BC0498272B31099617D22@pexch112.icann.org"><Haixin_Duan_UASG_ViceChair_Self_Nomination.pdf></span><span id="cid:5577E1B4E0CCA24090C77987F17E1911@pexch112.icann.org"><Nabil_Benamar_UASG_ViceChair_Self_Nomination.pdf></span><span id="cid:4BAE39CC0798BB47BEADDAA6B5E0E6E5@pexch112.icann.org"><Nitin_Wailia_UASG_ViceChair_Self_Nomination.pdf></span><span id="cid:6BDB74F4F5537842831ACFE6BE985B12@pexch112.icann.org"><U_B_Pavanaja_UASG_ViceChair_Self_Nomination.pdf></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); 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