Dear All, We have been asked by the Chair of APRALO, Professor Hong Xue, to start an online vote to determine the APRALO-recommended ALAC Delegate to the Nominating Committee (NomCom). Siranush Vardanyan and Dr. V.C. Vivekanandan have both accepted their nomination for the position of ALAC Delegate to the NomCom from the Asia, Australasia and Pacific Islands Region before the close of the acceptation period on August 10th. They are are both eligible. The question to be put will be the following: Who should APRALO recommend that the ALAC appoint as the NomCom representative from the Asia, Australasia and Pacific Islands Region, for a term running from the end of the 2010 AGM* to the end of the 2011 AGM? With possible answers: Siranush Vardanyan Dr. V.C. Vivekanandan Abstain * AGM stands for ICANN Annual General Meeting. The 2010 AGM will be held from December 5th to December 10th in Cartagena, Colombia. A separate email with their voting credentials was sent to the APRALO ALS representatives recently. You find the current ALS representative list which has been updated according to comments received on the previous list published on August 4th, attached below. Please contact us at staff@atlarge.icann.org if you have not received your voting credentials. The vote will be anonymous and remain open until Sunday, 15 August at 2359 UTC. In the event of a tie, there will be a second round of voting. You can find additional information about this position and the election process under: https://st.icann.org/asiapac/index.cgi?2010_election_calls_apralo -- Regards, Heidi Ullrich, Matthias Langenegger, Seth Greene, Gisella Gruber-White, Marilyn Vernon, Kristina Nordström ICANN At-Large Staff email: staff[at]atlarge.icann.org website: www.atlarge.icann.org Eligible APRALO voters (total 18): Arab Knowledge Management Society (AKMS) Mahmoud Lattoufi mlattouf@agip.com At Large@China Mengxuan Wu wu.mx@hotmail.com Chinese Domain Name Users Alliance Prof. Hong Xue hongxueipr@gmail.com Emirates Internet Group Khalid Bin Thani info@isoc.ae Hong Kong Internet Forum (HKIF) Paul Chow sec@hkif.hk Internet Users Network zumi Aizu iza@anr.org Internet Users Society Niue Stafford Guest sguest@niue.nu ISOC Australia Cheryl Langdon-Orr langdonorr@gmail.com ISOC Chapter India Chennai Sivasubramanian Muthusamy isolatedn@gmail.com ISOC HK Edmon Chung edmon@isoc.hk ISOC NZ Keith Davidson keith@internetnz.net.nz ISOC Taiwan Chapter Chung Laung Liu liucl@mx.nthu.edu.tw National Information Infrastructure Enterprise Promotion Association (NIIEPA) Sophie Liang lliang@nii.org.tw Open Standards and Internet Association (OSIA) Hyun-kook Kahng kahng@korea.ac.kr Pacific Islands Chapter fo the Internet Society (PICISOC) William (Will) Tibben wjt@uow.edu.au Society Vasudhay Kutumbhkum (ISVK)- India Nimrol Agarwal nirmolagarwal@gmail.com Internet Society Pakistan Chapter Qasim Y. Khan isoc@isocpk.org Pakistan ICT Policy Monitor Fouad Riaz Bajwa fouadbajwa@gmail.com