Dear Ex-Comm, Compliments of the season and I pray the new year ushers in all the goodness our heart desires. On the last BC call held on the 14th of December 2017, Ex-comm's decision on the BC nominees to the ICANN Community Onboarding Program was announced. It is my belief that Excomm arrived at its decision with an exception applied for its choice of who plays the choice of Mentor for the program. The Onboarding program for which myself and Omar were mentees and Marylin our mentor was designed to help produce materials that could help new volunteers easily integrate into our constituency and document same on mediums such as ICAAN Learn, asides working with our outreach committee to attract more volunteers into the BC. More on the program can be found here; https://community.icann.org/m/mobile.action#page/64082880 Before FY17, the program administrators who are ICANN staff, introduced into the mentorship program a system where the Mentor would exit the program and allow for a mentee to become the mentor and a new member from our respective constituency onboarded into the program as mentee to allow for continuity. Note that this new mentee would have leadership potentials to become the mentor in the next ICANN Financial year. On the strength of this, the ccNSO, GAC, ISPCP amongst others have had mentees move on to become mentors. Here the BC Excomm's decision sets a new precedence for the ICANN Community Onboarding Program by causing the exit of its mentees and retaining the mentor and not taking diversity into consideration. Invariably, the BC's choice of the Mentor should have been between Omar and myself as the current mentees on the program. Hence I seek to know the exception Excomm used to arrive at its decision and how this was voted on at its meeting, otherwise I request that I be considered for the mentorship role on the Onboarding program to conform with ICANN's standard form the community. Lawrence.