Thanks Avri. Although technically not a Council "member", I believe I am the longest serving "something", both in cumulative and consecutive years. I should have pointed out, for those who are moderately new to ICANN or the GNSO, that Cheryl has an "interesting" history. She is of course the outgoing NomCom chair, and in the past has been ALAC Chair, ALAC Liaison to the ccnSO and I believe a ccNSO member (representing .au). In addition, she has been working on a wide variety of GNSO activities over many years. A sampling include the re-write of the GNSO Operating Procedures, a number of PDPs and currently Cross Community WG - Implementation Advisory Group for Competition, Consumer Trust & Consumer Choice, Cross Community Working Group on a Framework of Principles for Future CWGs, Cross Community Working Group on the Use of Country and Territory Names as TLDs, GNSO Policy and Implementation Work Group and GNSO non-PDP Data & Metrics for Policy Making Working Group (Co-Chair). As far as I can tell, most of the teleconferences she attends are in what most people would consider the middle of the night in Australia... Alan At 05/10/2014 01:42 PM, Avri Doria wrote:

Hi,

Congratulations to our longest, I think, serving GNSO council member on your new task.

And welcome to Cheryl.

avri

On 05-Oct-14 12:19, Alan Greenberg wrote:

...

As many of you know, at this start of this term, I had announced that after 8 years, it would be my last.

I have also recently been named the in-coming ALAC Chair, so even without the decision I would be leaving the GNSO.

I am pleased to report that a successor has been named. For the 2014-15 year, the ALAC Liaison to the GNSO will be Cheryl Langdon-Orr. I have no doubt that you will welcome her. I will avoid all references to show sizes here, but I have no doubt that you will find her style very different from mine, but more than capable of being my successor.

Alan