[To: council[at]gnso.icann.org] Dear Council Members, At the GNSO Council meeting on 20 October 2005 it was unanimously agreed to appoint an interim GNSO Council Chair from 18 November to 1 month after the 2005 Annual General Meeting (ie until 4 January 2006) and run the election for the GNSO Council Chair during December 2005, for the next term to run from 4 January to 3 December 2006 (one month after the current date for the 2006 Annual General Meeting) A formal nomination period is open for one week from Thursday 20 October to Thursday 27 October ending at 11:59 UTC. Only GNSO Council members are eligible to make nominations. There has been one nomination to date. Bruce Tonkin has been nominated by Ken Stubbs, seconded by Philip Colebrook and Bruce has accepted the nomination. Kind regards, Glen -- Glen de Saint Géry GNSO Secretariat - ICANN gnso.secretariat[at]gnso.icann.org http://gnso.icann.org