Byron, colleagues: As, both personally, and in my capacity as Councilmember, I had no objection to the Selection Committee's choices, I did /not/ raise any comment within the time scale mandated by the Chairman's email of July 10th. However I have just been made aware of objections originating from two ccTLD managers. They are, it seems, objecting to the Selection Committee's failure to appoint any Member of the Co-ordination Committee who comes from a non-ccNSO Member organisation. One of these managers making complaint comes from a ccTLD within ICANN's European region, and therefore I am obliged to bring their concerns to Council irrespective of my own views in the matter. From what they told me, they feel excluded from the process, and beleive that a significant part of the ccTLD community has been excluded. I have also been told that the other (non-EU) ccTLD has approached the ccNSO directly. Colleagues, I have every confidence in each of the selectees of the ad-hoc Selection Committee. This is however, so important, that, in my view, we can have no hint of any controversy. So perhaps if there was a way to accommodate a non-ccNSO member /in addition/ to the nominees, that might remove much of the perceived problem? Thoughts? Nigel Roberts (EU-region) On 07/10/2014 06:05 PM, Burr, Becky wrote:

From: Byron Holland <byron.holland@cira.ca<mailto:byron.holland@cira.ca>> Date: Thursday, July 10, 2014 at 1:00 PM To: "'ccnso-council@icann. org'" <ccnso-council@icann.org<mailto:ccnso-council@icann.org>> Subject: [ccnso-council] Report from the ccNSO Selection Committee on IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group

Dear Colleagues, On behalf of the Selection Committee, please find attached our report for adoption by the Council. The report was agreed unanimously by the Members of the Committee. Following the process as documented in the report, the Committee selected the following four ccTLD members for the Coordination Group: · Martin Boyle, .UK, EU region · Keith Davidson, .NZ, AP region · Xiaodong Lee, .CN. AP region · Mary Uduma, .NG, AF Region

ICANN has scheduled the first meeting of the Coordination Group for July 18 & 19 in London. Given the need for those chosen to make travel arrangements, I will assume that unless I receive objections to the recommendation by 11:00 UTC, July 11, 2014 that Council has approved the recommendation. I have taken the precaution of informing all of the applicants of the Committee’s recommendation, given the urgency. Kind regards, Byron Holland