Stephen: Thank you for reminding us of this. By way of reply, and to inform the necessary discussion of the eventual agenda item, you should be aware that I have already submitted my formal resignation from the Council (as required by Section 7.4(d) of the ICANN Bylaws, in accordance with Section 10.3(e) (effective at the conclusion of the Council Meeting scheduled for Panama). Please see the below email which was sent in January to the Company Secretary (with the requisite Notification Copy to the Chair), all as required by Section 10.3(e) of the ByLaws. As the Company Secretary (who reads in copy) is formally on notice regarding the vacancy that is now deemed by the Bylaws to exist from the end of June, I would venture to suggest that a call for Candidates for the automatic Special Election - that now 10.3(g) requires to take place - probably needs to go out very soon. Nigel -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Formal Notification of Resignation from ccNSO Council/consequent occurence of vacancy Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2018 16:24:03 +0000 From: Nigel Roberts <nigel@channelisles.net> To: Katrina Sataki <katrina@nic.lv>, john.jeffrey@icann.org, Katrina Sataki <katrina@nic.lv> Dear John, dear Katrina Following 1. recent helpful and constructive discussion with the ccNSO council at its most recent telephone meeting, regarding matters of timing; 2. the various expected additional activities I will be involved in after the coming Summer; and 3. in view of the requirements of Section 7.4(d) of the ICANN By-Laws which provides I must leave the ccNSO Council no later than the Autumn (the Barcelona meeting) then, I'm pleased now to advise now that: this email is intended to serves as the formal notice of my resignation from the ccNSO council required by Section 10.3(e); such resignation to be effective from the conclusion of the face-to-face ccNSO Council Meeting scheduled to be held in Panama this coming June. The same sub-section requires the Notice shall be addressed to the ICANN Secretary. In addition, I am also sending this to the ccNSO Council Chair as the prescribed Notification Copy, also required by the same Section. Under By-law 10.3(g) it now falls to the ccNSO members collectively to select a replacement to fill the casual vacancy occasioned under the procedure laid down in Section 10.4(g) through (i). I think this email complies with the necessary formalities to achieve the desired purpose, but if either of you think I may have overlooked or misread any of the by-law requirements, please don't hesitate to revert. Kind regards On 04/12/2018 02:51 PM, Stephen Deerhake wrote:

Greetings all,

Given that Nigel indicated a while back that he intends to step down from Council at the end of ICANN 62 (Panama), I think it would be useful to discuss the procedure and timing of the election of his successor on our next call.  I think it would be very useful if, for example, we could have a candidates’ forum as part of the ccNSO Members meeting at ICANN 62.

Best Regards,

/Stephen

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