Councilors - The leaders of all SO/ACs will meet tomorrow (7 FEB) to discuss the final roster of SSR2-RT Members. Please note that SO/ACs have submitted the following Members for the SSR2 Review Team: Name Gender SO/AC Nomination Region 1 Jabhera Matogoro M ALAC AF 2 Alain Aina M ccNSO AF 3 Mohamad Amin Hasbini M GAC AP 4 Noorul Ameen M GAC AP 5 Geoff Huston M SSAC AP 6 Ramkrishna Pariyar M ALAC AP 7 James Gannon M GNSO EUR 8 Boban Krsic M ccNSO EUR 9 Emily Taylor F GNSO EUR 10 Žarko Kecić M ccNSO EUR 11 Kerry-Ann Barrett F GAC NA 12 Cathy Handley F RSSAC NA 13 Denise Michel F GNSO NA 14 Don M. Blumenthal M SSAC NA 15 Eric Osterweil M RSSAC NA In addition to this list, the SO/ACs may choose from the following Alternate Candidates to balance diversity of gender, global region, and skills/expertise: Name Gender SO/AC Nomination Region 1 Rao Naveed Bin Rais M GNSO* AP 2 Abdalmonem Galila M ccNSO* AF 3 Paul Wouters M ccNSO* NA 4 Scott McCornick M GNSO* NA 5 Howard Eland M GNSO* NA 6 Alexa Raad F ccNSO* NA 7 Norm Ritchie M GNSO* NA I would welcome any thoughts, comments, or recommendations you would like me to convey in this meeting tomorrow. Furthermore, the Registration Directory Services (RDS) Call for Volunteers closed on 20 January 2017. Below is a list of the applications that have been submitted for your consideration. You can also find the full application for each candidate posted on the RDS-RT Wiki: https://community.icann.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=63145857 (Note that one GNSO candidate (Emily Taylor) has tentatively indicated that she may withdraw from consideration of the RDS-RT) Name Region Gender Seeking SO/AC endorsement SO/AC Nomination 1 Bonface Witaba AF M Other 2 Simon Seruyinda AF M Other 3 Michel Odou AF M Other 4 Remmy Nweke AF M GNSO 5 Stephen Kiptinness AF M ccNSO 6 Vignesh Pamu AP M GNSO 7 Ahmed Bakhat Masood AP M Other 8 R.R. Krishnaa AP M ccNSO 9 Rohit Yadav AP M ccNSO 10 Pitinan Kooamornpatana AP F GNSO 11 Ali Hussain AP M Other 12 Lili Sun AP F GAC 13 Subham Charan AP M GNSO 14 Stefania Milan EUR F GNSO 15 Svitlana Tkachenko EUR F ccNSO 16 Geo Van Langenhove EUR M ccNSO 17 Emily Taylor EUR F GNSO 18 Dmitry Belyavsky EUR M ALAC 19 Ayden Férdeline EUR M GNSO 20 Taras Geychenko EUR M ccNSO 21 Cathrin Bauer-Bulst EUR F GAC 22 Dejan Đukić EUR M ccNSO 23 Volker Greimann EUR M GNSO 24 Carlton Samuels LAC M ALAC 25 Timothy Chen NA M Other 26 Marc Anderson NA M GNSO 27 Stephanie Perrin NA F GNSO 28 Susan Kawaguchi NA F GNSO 29 Daniel John NA M ALAC 30 Thomas L. Walden, Jr. NA M GAC Ideally, we would employ our new Standing Selection Process to determine which candidates seeking GNSO endorsement are selected for RDS-RT. Thank you, J.