Stephane, Thanks for your thoughts. I can’t comment about historical aspects as I have only been a member a few years. You or the person nominated are at liberty to go public and post the nomination to the list. It is the voting officer who will not do so. Is it best to be bold and nominate at the beginning, or perhaps in the middle, or in the last few minutes at the very end when you know who the opposition is or isnt? I am not convinced it is a good idea to add the time dimension to the nominating process. Best Chris Chaplow Managing Director Andalucia.com S.L. Avenida del Carmen 9 Ed. Puertosol, Puerto Deportivo 1ª Planta, Oficina 30 Estepona, 29680 Malaga, Spain Tel: + (34) 952 897 865 Fax: + (34) 952 897 874 E-mail: <mailto:chris@andalucia.com> chris@andalucia.com Web: <http://www.andalucia.com/> www.andalucia.com Information about Andalucia, Spain. De: owner-bc-gnso@icann.org [mailto:owner-bc-gnso@icann.org] En nombre de Stephane Van Gelder Consulting Enviado el: miércoles, 16 de octubre de 2013 22:40 Para: Benedetta Rossi; bc-gnso@icann.org Asunto: Re: [bc-gnso] BC GNSO Councilor & Small Business Seat on Nominating Committee Elections: Nominations close on Friday, Oct. 18th Hi everyone, I would like te reiterate that I find it very odd that as a group, we prefer to have private nominations. If I am willing to support someone, I have no qualms about making that support public. Moreover, I find it troublesome that as a BC member, I do not know until the nomination deadline has passed whether someone has been nominated for a position or not. I am left with having to try to read into a reminder message such as this one whether it is being sent two days before the deadline because there have been no nominations, or because it's just two days before the deadline. And if I did know what nominations had been made, especially if none had been made, I might be spurred on to reach out to other potential candidates and try to get them on board. But with the current private nomination system, I just don't know. Is there a historical reason for having private nominations? Do others feel, like I do, that it's time to put an end to the secrecy and to run fully transparent election processes? Thanks, Stéphane Van Gelder Chairman and Managing Director/Fondateur STEPHANE VAN GELDER CONSULTING T (FR): +33 (0)6 20 40 55 89 T (UK): +44 (0)7583 457053 Skype: SVANGELDER www.StephaneVanGelder.com ---------------- Follow us on Twitter: @stephvg and "like" us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/DomainConsultant LinkedIn: fr.linkedin.com/in/domainconsultant/ On 16 October 2013 18:47, Benedetta Rossi <bc-secretariat@icann.org> wrote: From: BC Secretariat Date: October 16th, 2013 CC: Glen De Saint Gery, Returning Officer ,Robert Hoggarth, Verifying Officer, bcvotes@hotmail.com Re: BC GNSO Councilor & Small Business NomCom Seat Elections: Reminder – Nominations Close on Friday, Oct.18th Please note that this is the announcement for the BC elections for one of the two BC GNSO Councilor seats and the Small Business Seat on the Nominating Committee . Please note that the nomination period will close on Friday, October 18th. If you would like to submit a nomination, please follow the procedure outlined in the election procedure attached, and submit your nomination to the bcvotes@hotmail.com email address prior to Friday COB. Candidate statements should also be sent to the bcvotes@hotmail.com no later than Sunday, Oct. 20th. Once again, please refer to the attachment for the full details regarding this election. Transmitted by the BC Secretariat: Benedetta Rossi, serving as Voting Officer -- Kind Regards, Benedetta Rossi BC Secretariat <http://bc-secretariat@icann.org> bc-secretariat@icann.org <https://community.icann.org/display/gnsobc/Home> https://community.icann.org/display/gnsobc/Home www.bizconst.org