I hereby advise the At-Large Community, ALS's RALO's and the serving ALAC, that as at 1330 UTC today October 23rd, the Nomination period for the Elections of the 2008-2009 ALAC Liaison and Appointment positions, listed below, is open for a period of 14 days and will end at 1200 UTC on November 5th during our Cairo Meeting. ALAC Liaisons to:- GNSO ccNSO NCUC SSAC * IDN WG's ** ALAC Appointments to:- dotMobi Policy Advisory Board *** ALAC or At-Large Community Members who currently fill these roles are eligible and may be nominated or self nominate for re-election. However it should be noted that under current travel support and budget policy for the 2008 -2009 ICANN Meetings any liaison or appointment that is *not* a serving ALAC delegate has no assurance that any travel funding will be able to be made available to any Face to Face ICANN meeting (or activity) in that period, although we will as usual make every effort to facilitate remote participation this may be a point for nominees to consider. It should also be noted that under the new travel support policy it is the constituency or Committee that appoints the liaison to another ICANN body that has the budgetary responsibility for any such support. Nominations *must* be accepted (self nominations will count as an acceptance) by sending a message to the public list no later than the close of the nomination period i.e. 1200 UTC 5th of November. *** see dotMobi PAB Note below This is a regular election (where more than one candidate has been duly nominated and accepted) that will be held at the end of the Cairo ICANN Annual General Meeting and the electorate will include the delegates (that is that is one of the 15 Members of the At-Large Advisory Committee) whose term starts at the closure of that Annual General Meeting, and will not include the former ALAC members whose term ends at the closure of that Annual General Meeting. Your attention is drawn to Rules 4, 5, 6, 7 & 8 (ELECTION OF LIAISONS, QUALIFICATION CRITERIA FOR LIAISONS, PRIVILEGES OF LIAISONS, OTHER APPOINTMENTS and QUALIFICATION CRITERIA FOR APPOINTMENTS of the ALAC Rules of Procedure. Further it should be noted that the specifics of the minimum performance criteria and general expectations of the role of being an ALAC liaison/appointment will be discussed and modified in Cairo and candidates will be made aware of the outcomes of this deleiberatio0n before the close of nomination period. NOTES on some Liaison and Appointments * SSAC -> this liaison role has very specific requirements and the SSAC accept our suggestions of liaison (providing they are suitably qualified in their skill-sets to embrace the complex nature of some of the work done in this committee, as a matter of courtesy not requirement to quote the SSAC Chair Mr. Steve Crocker in a recent message to me as ALAC Chair " We greatly appreciate the utility of good communication across the various ICANN components, and, in the security area, we are particularly aware that our subject matter cuts across virtually every aspect of ICANN. Over time, we have accepted Liaisons from ALAC, GAC, RSSAC, and, using a different label, the IETF. We have always treated Liaisons as full members of our committee, and, indeed, one of our requirements is that a liaison should be someone with expertise and ability in our area, the same as any other committee member. As a matter of form, we do not consider any other organization as owning a slot on the SSAC. (With the external review of SSAC about to commence, perhaps this is one of the myriad of details that might be changed, but the charter doesn't speak to this issue and our practice has been to view membership fairly uniformly.) As a matter of practice, we're delighted to have cross pollination, so we try to treat suggestions from other organizations pragmatically, and so far we have not pushed back on any proposed Liaison." ** IDN's WG Liaison -> as this role is involved in both fast track ccTLD and new gTLD issues a suitable candidate is one who brings with them considerable and extensive experience in the matters discussed so far and a clear passion to further these important issues in the next 12 months within ICANN. *** dotMobi PAB -> this appointment is currently held by Mr. John Levine and he has already indicated (earlier this month to the public list), his willingness and desire to continue to serve in this role... Therefore this notice of nominations recognizes the validity of this prior nomination (and acceptance) as having now been received in due and proper course for any ensuing election to be held. Cheryl Langdon-Orr ALAC Chair 2007-2008