[To: council[at]gnso.icann.org] Dear Councillors, The process followed in the past for the election of the GNSO Council Chair has been a call for nominations open for a period of two weeks. All nominations should be seconded by the end of this period, and only GNSO Council members are eligible to make nominations and second them. The voting period is usually open for 14 days. Voting will take place by secret e-mail ballot. Ballots will be sent out individually to each GNSO Council members' e-mail address. The same procedure that has taken place for the ICANN Board seat #13 elections. There will be a total of 27 votes cast and a majority is 14 or more. In case of a tie, there will be a second round of voting. When the e-mail vote is closed, the results will be announced for each council member to check that her/his vote was correctly registered and the results of the e-mail vote will be confirmed at a GNSO Council meeting. All GNSO Council members are eligible to vote, that is, 3 representatives from each constituency, Registrars, gTLD registries, Commercial and Business Users (CBUC), Non Commercial Users (NCUC), Intellectual Property (IPC), and Internet Service Providers and Connectivity Providers (ISPCP) and the 3 Nominating Committee appointees. Liaisons from the ALAC and the GAC do not vote. There are two options for a proposed election schedule. (Option A is the quickest but gives only 1 working day for pre-election discussion before nominations are due. Option B allows for 9 working days discussion which may be better). A. Call for nominations: Tuesday 17 April to Tuesday 1 May 2007 Voting period: Monday 7 May to Monday 21 May 2007. Announce the results 22 May 2007 Confirm the vote at the scheduled GNSO Council meeting on 24 May 2007 B. Call for nominations: Friday 27 April to Friday 11 May 2007 Voting period: Wednesday 16 to Wednesday 30 May Announce the results 31 May 2007 Confirm results at scheduled GNSO Council meeting on 7 June 2007. Please let me have your comments. Thank you. kind regards, Glen Glen de Saint Géry GNSO Secretariat - ICANN gnso.secretariat[at]gnso.icann.org http://gnso.icann.org