Dear Council colleagues, Sincere thanks in advance to Rafik Dammak and Keith Drazek for serving as this year's Council representatives on the Multistakeholder Ethos Award selection panel. Traditionally, the Council has been represented by the two vice chairs. This is the third year of this initiative, and the organizers expressed an interest in limiting representatives to 2 consecutive terms on the selection panel, rendering Donna ineligible (she and I served in our roles as Council Vice Chair in 2016/17 and 2015/16). In Donna's stead, Keith has agreed to serve. Below please find David Olive's confirmation of our representatives. Best wishes, Heather ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: David Olive <david.olive@icann.org> Date: Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 1:04 AM Subject: Re: [Ext] Re: Request For Community Selection Panel Participants – 2018 Multistakeholder Ethos Award Program To: Heather Forrest <haforrestesq@gmail.com> Thanks Heather. We welcome Rafik and Keith. Regards. David Sent from my iPhone David A. Olive Senior Vice President Policy Development Support Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) On Dec 5, 2017, at 7:43 AM, Heather Forrest <haforrestesq@gmail.com> wrote: Dear David, I am pleased to notify you that Rafik Dammak and Keith Drazek will represent the GNSO in this year's Ethos selection panel. It was an honour to serve on the panel in the previous two years. With best wishes, Heather Forrest On 21/11/2017 12:48 PM, "David Olive" <david.olive@icann.org> wrote:

Dear Heather, Filiz, Katrina, Manal, Tripti, Alan, Patrik, Rod, and Brad:

The process for the 2018 Multistakeholder Ethos Award is opening shortly, and I would like to give you some more details about the Award, our goal of presenting the fourth annual award at the ICANN62 Policy Forum and the desire to have up to two members from each of your communities made available to help choose the recipient(s) of the award.

Following a successful collaboration between staff and panelists who served on last year’s selection committee, the award program has been maintained intact for this year. Notable changes were rolled out last year, as you may be aware, which included updated award criteria language and a more detailed and streamlined nomination process via a nomination form. Panelists also shared positive feedback regarding the introduction of calls with nominators which were decisive in the selection process last year. Please find attached an overview document outlining the program details.

In order to achieve the goal of presenting the award at ICANN62, we will announce the opening of the recipient nomination period in a couple of weeks – we are targeting the second week of December. That nomination period will run through the 19th of March 2018 for nominations to be submitted from the full ICANN community.

*In the meantime, between now and 15 January 2018 we’d like to identify interested community members from your communities to help select the recipient(s) of the award. Following the framework used for the previous awards, we would like to offer you the opportunity to name up to two people from your community (including yourself if you would like) to comprise the panel that will select the award recipient(s). *

I’d like to take this opportunity to thank panelists who served on previous panels and helped shape the award process for the future. *Moving forward it would be ideal for panelists to serve a maximum of two consecutive terms on the selection panel to ensure diversity and variety of input and equal opportunity among community members to take part in this valuable effort of fellow recognition*. Alternatively, it would be great if one of the two slots could be rotated, for the reasons listed above.

With appropriate staff support, we envision the workload of the selection panelists will be limited. Some time will be necessarily devoted to reviewing nominations, but we expect weekly one-hour calls from the end of March to June to discuss the process, review the nominations and select the award recipient.

*We’d like to have panelist names from you by 15 January 2018* so that an initial panelist call can be scheduled before the nomination period ends, a second call can take place shortly after the nomination period closes and then additional calls can be scheduled to make award recipient decisions.

Following the successful efforts carried out in London, Buenos Aires, Helsinki and Johannesburg and the positive feedback received from the selection panels, we are happy to reaffirm that this award will be an annual award to be presented during the welcome reception of the Policy Forums. Please note that volunteers who previously served on the selection panel are welcome to serve again, if they wish to do so, bearing in mind some diversity of input and a two consecutive term cap.

Please share any thoughts, comments or ideas with me on this list. I look forward to working with you on this effort.

Best regards,

David

David A. Olive Senior Vice President

Policy Development Support Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)