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