Dear APRALO Members, You already received my e-mail related to the delegation of my vote as APRALO Acting Chair to the Regional Secretary Pavan Budhani. As per ALAC new rules and procedures we need to have a formal vote from our RALO.As this is very late notification, at this stage we only can ask all APRALO ALSs members, if there is ANY OBJECTIONS from the region for Pavan to have this delegating authority. I apologize for a very short notice, but we need to have the response from ALSs within 24 hours from now, the latest March 15th, 23:00 UTC. Just to let you also know that Pavan's candidacy was agreed on consensus basis by APRALO Executive Committee (Three ALAC members - Holly, Maureen and Rafid), as well as myself as an Acting Chair, Fouad as Vice Chair and ICANN NomCom 2014 Chair Cheryl Langdon-Orr). This is a very important role for our internet users community, so, please, if you have any objections to give Pavan this authority, just make your voice heard. If no objections will be received within the given short period, then we will send his name as a formal voting delegate from APRALO. Once again, apologize for such a short notice. Looking forward hearing from you. Sincerely, Siranush Siranush VardanyanAPRALO Acting Chair Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 15:12:20 +0100 From: ocl@gih.com To: siranush_vardanyan@hotmail.com; staff@atlarge.icann.org; apac-discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org CC: langdonorr@gmail.com; h.raiche@internode.on.net; hilyard@oyster.net.ck; pavan@registry.asia; fouadbajwa@gmail.com; raf@sasiconsult.com; tijani.benjemaa@planet.tn Subject: Re: Delegation of my vote as APRALO Acting Chair Dear Siranush, I have forwarded your note to Tijani Ben Jemaa who is the Chair of the Board Member Selection Process Committee (BMSPC). I have concerns that you are not able to do this. The procedure for selection a replacement was clearly explained in past calls and needs a formal vote of the RALO as per ALAC Rules of Procedure, so you will need to confirm that this has taken place. But I shall let Tijani & the BMSPC confirm/deny this. Kind regards, Olivier 14/03/2014 07:04, Siranush Vardanyan wrote: Dear At-Large Staff and APRALO Community, Please note that for the purpose of casting the vote of the APRALO Chair in the upcoming selection of the Seat #15 Member of the ICANN Board by At-Large, the APRALO Regional Leadership has agreed that I will delegate the role of casting our vote to the Regional Secretary Pavan Budhrani. This is necessary because even though as Acting Chair the vote comes to me, I served along with Ellen Strickland, on the Regions behalf in the Board Candidate Evaluation Committee (BCEC) and the ALAC Rules regarding the selection of this Board Seat state in Paragraph 19.5 " No member of the electorate (Paragraph 19.10) may simultaneously serve as a member of the BCEC ". I thank Pavan for accepting this delegated authority under these unique circumstances that we find ourselves in, and would thank staff to ensure that he receives the required voting credentials for the APRALO. Sincerely, Siranush SIRANUSH VARDANYAN APRALO ACTING CHAIR