Dear Colleagues, After reflecting on our call last week, the difficult discussion, and having heard back from our RO colleagues, I am of the strong opinion that we will have to move forward with the candidates as selected by order of rank in voting. Our RO colleagues will not be able to put forward member and have therefore asked us to proceed with selecting all 5 members. Given there was little appetite or agreement on any type of qualitative selection and that most spoke in favour of simply allowing the vote to stand, this will be that path forward. No selection of 5 people will ever be a perfect representation of our broad community, however the top 5 to provide a widely diverse cross section of cc operators, both ccnso member and unaffiliated, as well as gender, size, business model, and geography. The top 5 ranked candidates are: Erick Iriarte (.pe, LAC, member ccNSO) 12 out of 13 Lise Fuhr (.dk, EU, non-member) 11 Vika Mpisane (.za, AF, member) 11 Paul Kane (.ac, EU, non-member) 7 Staffan Jonson (.se, EU, member) 6 Unless there is a strong objection with equally strong supporting rationale, I propose we move forward with the members we most strongly voted for. Best regards, Byron Byron Holland, President & CEO Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) Twitter: @cira001<mailto:@cira001> Trends, Commentary, Perspective. Stay tuned to cirablog.ca<http://www.cirablog.ca/> www.cira.ca<http://www.cira.ca/>