Dear all, I am pleased to inform you that during yesterday’s ccPDP4 WG meeting, the members present on the call supported the nomination of: 1. Kenny Huang to be chair of the full WG 2. Anil Kumar Jain to be vice-chair of the WG In addition the WG already agreed to nominate Alireza Saleh (.ir) as chair of one the Variant Management sub-working groups, who, in accordance with the WG charter will be appointed by the Chair and Vice-Chair of the WG when the sub-group becomes active. As required under the Charter you are now kindly requested to appoint Kenny Huang (TWNIC, .tw)) to be chair of the ccPDP4 WG and Anil Kumar Jain (NiXi, .in) as vice-chair of the WG by 10 November 23.59 UTC. Draft resolution The ccNSO Council appoints Kenny Huang (TWNIC, .tw)) to be chair of the ccPDP4 WG and Anil Kumar Jain (NiXi, .in) as vice-chair of the ccPDP4 WG, and requests the secretariat to inform the Working Group and chair and vice-chair personally. Please note that the GRC will start to work on a WG chair and vice-chair nomination and expression of preference procedure, which will be added to the relevant ccNSO Guidelines. This update of the Guidelines would also implement recommendation 3 of the ccNSO Independent reviewers. For you reference I have included the notes from yesterday’s WG call. Kind regards, Bart From the notes of last WG call (3 November 2020) 3. Recap and next steps Chair and Vice-chair nomination (see separate email) Discussion on 6 october, where Bart explained what happened, and addressed the concerns raised by some. No clear consensus by the group on the way forward. The issue was taken up with the ccNSO Council, not only regarding this group, but also to address the broader issue regarding the chair and vice-chair selection of all ccNSO Working Groups. Today is the closing date for the Council to provide feedback. Bart and Council Chair started preparing a proposed procedure. Once signed off by Katrina, suggestion to start either with the current candidates, or to start afresh with the nomination procedure. Bart will describe this in an email, for those not attending today’s meeting. Recap: The WG members nominate chair and vice chair. Not the observers, neither the participants. The Council appoints the Chair and Vice Chair. The next Council meeting is on 19 November. Council could also make the appointment online (via email) Peter: confused. Question to council, with deadline of today. Ram is wondering whether if this heavy-weight process is essential? Can we not agree to the idea of 1 Chair and 2 Vice-Chairs? Allowing us to move forward. Bart: the original proposal would be for one of the candidates to chair a sub-WG. Workload would be too high is someone is vice chair for the bigger group and chair to one of the sub-WGs. Ram: Can Kenny, Alireza, Anil react on the call? Ajay: confirms what Ram said. Anil: agrees with 2 vice chairs. Ready to also take responsibility for chairing the sub-groups Kenny: agrees to move forward Alireza: move forward. Procedure was confusing. Accountability is important. Is available to chair one of the sub-groups. He agrees for Anil to be vice chair. Proposal. Kenny to be chair and Anil vice-Chair of the full WG Alireza will become the Chair of the Sub-WG on variant management Plenty of green ticks, no red marks Congratulations to all. Bart will circulate email afterwards, and will inform Council as well. Ram thanks everyone.