Dear Councillors, The nomination period for the GNSO Council chair position is closed. http://gnso.icann.org/elections/gnso-chair-nom-process-12oct11-en.pdf There has been one nomination. Stéphane van Gelder has been duly nominated by Jonathan Robinson from the Contracted Parties House http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg12081.html and seconded by Ching Chiao also from the Contracted Parties House. http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg12082.html Stéphane has been notified and has until Friday, 14 October 2011 at 22:00 UTC to submit a candidacy statement which will be sent to the Council mailing list and published on the Elections page: http://gnso.icann.org/elections/index.html Thank you. Kind regards, Glen Glen de Saint Géry GNSO Secretariat gnso.secretariat@gnso.icann.org<mailto:gnso.secretariat@gnso.icann.org> http://gnso.icann.org