I don't agree with this process. Besides questions about randomness I think we just need a liitle more time. Unfortunately I will likely miss the call today. Having some routine tests that are taking longer than expected. Tim Sent from Go Daddy Mobile Mail.

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [council] NCA Assignments From: Avri Doria <avri@acm.org> Date: Thu, October 08, 2009 7:11 am To: Council GNSO <council@gnso.icann.org>

Hi,

Not having heard, and proceeding to the final step,

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d. If the GNSO Council Houses and/or their respective Stakeholder Groups are unable to reach agreement, then the new, inexperienced NCA will take the non-voting Council seat and random selection will be used to assign the other two NCAs to Houses before the Council meeting on 8 October 2009.

Note: If I need to do a random selection, I will use the Wednesday 7 Oct Powerball Lottery number (http://www.powerball.com/powerball/pb_numbers.asp ) as seed to the IETF RFC3797 random selection algorithm with the names ordered alphabetic by first name.; ie. Olga, Terry. Doing so, however, will result in at least one of the NCAs being given an assignment that is contrary to their expressed interests.

The lottery number for yesterday was: 2 20 21 38 50

Using alphabetical order for the picks, the names are ordered:

1. Olga 2. Terry

Also using alphabetical order for the assignments,

1st name picked goes to Contracted Parties House 2nd name picked goes to Non Contracted Parties House

the RFC3797 program run (included below) picks #2 first

meaning:

Terry is assigned to Contracted Olga is assigned to Non Contracted Andrei, by motion, is non-voting Council seat.

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Run of the RFC3797 program

Type size of pool: (or 'exit' to exit) 2 Type number of items to be selected: (or 'exit' to exit) 1 Approximately 1.1 bits of entropy needed.

Type #1 randomness or 'end' followed by new line. Up to 16 integers or the word 'float' followed by up to 16 x.y format reals. 2 20 21 38 50 2 20 21 38 50 Type #2 randomness or 'end' followed by new line. Up to 16 integers or the word 'float' followed by up to 16 x.y format reals. end Key is: 2.20.21.38.50./ index hex value of MD5 div selected 1 EFC9E973E94E5D3BB70D8CDE6C0EDBCD 2 -> 2 <-

Done, type any character to exit.

On 8 Oct 2009, at 10:05, Avri Doria wrote:

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Hi,

I have not heard from any of the other SG representative on the subject of NCA assignment.

I will run the lottery shortly unless I hear that people have reached agreement.

Using alphabetical order for the picks, the names will be ordered:

1. Olga 2. Terry

Using alphabetical order for the assignments,

1st name picked goes to Contracted Parties House 2nd name picked goes to Non Contracted Parties House

thanks

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On 8 Oct 2009, at 00:53, Avri Doria wrote:

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Hi,

Thanks Kristina.

Assuming the NCSG agrees, it remains for the Contracted Parties House to agree or not to the assignment of Andrei. If they do, I assume the assignment of Olga as the non voting just falls out.

I am in the UK, and about to go to sleep after a longs day's flight. I will hold off running the random selection until I hear back from folks tomorrow.

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On 7 Oct 2009, at 16:08, Rosette, Kristina wrote:

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All,

On behalf of the Commercial Stakeholder Group, I write to advise that Terry's preference to be assigned to the Non-Contracted Parties House is acceptable to us. I communicated this information yesterday to the NCSG point person on the issue. As no other SG has yet posted any assignment-related information, we are posting to the Council list in the hope of facilitating Council completion of the assignment process in the previously agreed upon timeframe.

K