Dear GNSO Council,

Please see below the GNSO Chair election timeline for the 2025 GNSO Chair election. We are sharing ahead of the announcement deadline in order to allow for more flexible election scheduling. This will be posted shortly on the GNSO Elections webpage.

Deadlines	Not Later Than:	Activity Commences:
25 February 2025	Summer ICANN Meeting and/or dependency on new travel deadlines	Announce Proposed Procedure and Timeline
27 June 2025 (ICANN84 funded traveler name submission deadline)	T – 60 Days and/or dependency on new travel deadlines	NomCom Selectees Announced
		SG/C New Council Members Announced
		House Nominee Selection
29 September 2025	T – 30 Days	Houses Submit Nominees
11 October 2025	T – 18 Days	Candidates Submit Statements
26 October 2025	T – 3 Days	Candidate Meetings
29 October 2025	T	Election Held at Annual General Meeting
31 October 2025	T + 2 Days	Council informs the Board & Community and posts election results on the GNSO website

Traditionally the timeline is built in keeping with GNSO Operating Procedures guidelines, but with the funded traveler submission deadline now being 120 days prior to the meeting (instead of 90 days), we have had to adapt the first two steps of the timeline. This now fits in with the 27 June 2025 as submission deadline for funded traveler names for ICANN84.

The remaining steps however are in keeping with the GNSO Operating Procedures, counting back from the election date.

Please let me know if you have any questions. 

Kind regards,

Terri

Policy Team Supporting the GNSO