Dear Council Members, Andrei Kolesnikov has duly informed me that he will be unable to attend the GNSO Council meeting scheduled for April 7th, 2011. The reason for his absence is traveling to the far North without ability to communicate by any means, due to his first vacation in 2011. According to the GNSO Operating Procedures (Section 4.5), pursuant to this notification (*), a proxy is automatically transferred to the Council NCA Carlos Dionisio Aguirre who has been notified of this action and is prepared to register a vote in his absence for each of the motions noted on page https://community.icann.org/display/gnsocouncilmeetings/Motions+7+April+2011 For any Council motions not explicitly listed above, it is understood that his vote will be recorded as "Absent." Thank you. Kind regards, Glen Glen de Saint Géry GNSO Secretariat gnso.secretariat@gnso.icann.org http://gnso.icann.org