Hi Siavash, I do not wish to engage in a string of he said, she said, but draw your attention to the following email from Cheryl when nominating you which is self-explanatory and I copy the paragraph in question below for clarity: / / /To this end please accept this email as my formal nomination of Siavash Shahshahani for this position; and *I call for both a seconder and for Siavash to confirm his continuing interest, and accept this nomination on this list*./ I assume you are on this list and saw the message, as you refer to it below, and note that you did not respond until now. I would have thought you would have raised the issue you raise below when the message was sent on 15 August. With reference to your comment about ICANN staff, in APRALO's case at least there is no question of being misled by ICANN staff. I refer to the message by the ALAC Chair on 27 July to the general alac list which said this: *We'd like the RALOs to send the regional recommendation to the ALAC to the ALAC by end August, so there isn't much time.* This statement explicitly calls for a "regional recommendation to ALAC" and that is exactly what we have been engaged in. Regards, R. --/------ Original Message -------- / /Subject: / /Re: [APAC-Discuss] Reminder: NomCom seat candidate/ /Date: / /Wed, 15 Aug 2007 09:27:16 +1000/ /From: / /Cheryl Langdon-Orr <cheryl@hovtek.com.au>/ /Reply-To: / /cheryl@hovtek.com.au/ /Organization: / /Hovtek Pty Limited/ /To: / /'Asia-Pacific Discuss' <apac-discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org>/ /References: / /<46C12F4B.6020301@pacificit.org>/ / / /As I mentioned to some of you (by way of general information) at the close of our teleconference last week with the ALAC Liaison Candidates... Siavash has previously indicated to Izumi, Hong and myself, that he was interested in being nominated by APRALO for this position... To this end please accept this email as my formal nomination of Siavash Shahshahani for this position; and I call for both a seconder and for Siavash to confirm his continuing interest, and accept this nomination on this list./ Siavash Shahshahani wrote:
Dear Rajnesh, Just to clarify, as Cheryl indicated in her letter to you, I had asked to be considered for the Nom Com, so I had been self-nominated and there was no question of accepting or rejecting the nomination. Regarding your recollection of Bali meeting, I'm sure you remember that I was there too(and in fact I chaired the meeting!). While your statement about APRALO roles is correct, let me point out that that the Nom.Com. representation is not a RALO function. According to ICANN by laws ALAC selects the Nom Com representative but should seek advice from the relevant RALO. If anybody has led you to believe that the initiation comes from the RALO, they've been wrong; I suggest that you read the by laws. There was a discussion about this recently on the internal ALAC list and concern was expressed that ICANN staff may have unwittingly misled the RALOs about the subject. Now I see that the concern was justified. Best, Siavash
Colleagues,
The deadline for nominations has closed.
We have 3 candidates nominated thus far, summarised below.
*CANDIDATE* *NOMINATED BY* *ALS* *NOMINATION DATE* Nirmol Agarwal (ISVK) ISVK-India / ISVK-India / 14th August 2007 Siavash Shahshahani (No ALS)
Cheryl Langdon-Orr /
Bilal Beiram
ISOC-AU /
AKMS
15th August 2007 Karaitiana Taiuru (New Zealand Maori Internet Society) New Zealand Maori Internet Society / Franck Martin New Zealand Maori Internet Society / 15th August 2007
Out of the above 3 candidates, 2 were self-nominations (Nirmol and Karaitiana). Siavash has not indicated to the list that he has accepted the nomination.
At the Bali Meeting earlier this year, there was general consensus that APRALO roles and functions would be handled by members from within ALS'. If there was no interest from within ALS' then such roles and functions could be offered to persons outside the ALS'. In this instance we have 2 persons representing ALS' interested in the position, and 1 person nominated from outside the APRALO ALS'.
If we stick to the consensus agreed to in Bali, then our preference must be between Nirmol and Karaitiana.
I now seek your guidance on reaching consensus on our candidate nomination. The other options are to offer both candidates to ALAC and let them pick one, or we vote and decide. Note that we need to reach this decision by the end of this coming weekend.
I look forward to your input.
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Kind regards,
Rajnesh D. Singh
Chair, ICANN Asia Pacific Regional At-Large Organisation www.apralo.org