[rpd] ASO AC Call for Nominations for Seat 9 on the ICANN Board

[Alan Barrett]

The ASO AC appoints two members to the ICANN Board (seats 9 and 
10), and the board members serve staggered three-year terms.  At 
present, those seats are occupied by Ray Plzak (seat 9) and Kuo 
Wei Wu (seat 10).  Ray Plzak's current term in seat 9 ends in 
2015, and the nomination process for finding a replacement started 
at the end of October.  The call for nominations is appended 
below.

--apb (Alan Barrett)

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Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 10:26:02 +1000
From: German Valdez <german at nro.net>
To: aso-announce at aso.icann.org
Subject: [aso-announce] ASO AC Call for Nominations for Seat 9 on the ICANN
	Board


Consistent with the ASO Memorandum of Understanding and ICANN Bylaws, the
Address Supporting Organization Address Council (ASO AC) calls for
nominations for Seat Number 9 on the ICANN Board of Directors.

Nominations will close at 23:59 UTC on Wednesday, 31 December 2014.

The time frame for the selection process is as follows:

- Nomination Phase ­ 24 October 2014 to 31 December 2015
- Comment Phase ­ 1 January 2015 to 31 March 2015
- Interview Phase ­ 1 February 2015 to 31 March 2015
- Selection Process ­ 1 April 2015 to 17 April 2015
- Due Diligence Review ­ 18 April 2015 to 31 May 2015
- Announcement ­ no later than 1 June 2015

The ICANN Bylaws state that no two directors selected by a Supporting
Organization can come from the same Geographic Region. Because the ASO AC
selection for Seat 10 is from the APNIC region, nominees for Seat 9 cannot
also come from this region.

All candidates must sign a Letter of Certification declaring that they are
of good character. The selected candidate will undergo an independent due
diligence review by an ICANN contractor, and announcement of the candidate
will follow once this review has been successfully completed.

Community members are invited to submit nominations by email to
nominations2015 at aso.icann.org, including the following information:

- The full name of the person being nominated
- Contact email address for the person being nominated
- Contact telephone number (if available) of the person being nominated
- The full name of the person making the nomination
- Contact email address for the person making the nomination
- Contact telephone number of the person making the nomination

The election procedures are found in Section 7 of the ASO AC Operating
Procedures, which are available at:

https://aso.icann.org/documents/operational-documents/operating-procedures-a
so-ac/

For further information and ongoing notices about the selection process,
please visit:

https://aso.icann.org/aso-icann/icann-board-elections/2015-elections/


Regards,
ASO Secretariat
secretariat at aso.icann.org