Dear All, As requested, the reason for asking for an additional Council meeting is as follows: ICANN Board Seat 14 is currently held by Bill Graham. His term is set to expire at the 2014 Annual General Meeting, which is scheduled to be held on 16 October 2014 in Los Angeles. According to the ICANN Bylaws, the Non-Contracted Party House shall select a representative to fill Board Seat 14, and must give the ICANN Secretary written notice of its selection at least 6 months before the date of the beginning of the term for the seat. As a result, the Non-Contracted Party House selection for Board Seat 14 must be provided to the ICANN Secretary by no later than April 16, 2014. (Refer to Bylaws Art. VI, Section 8(4)<http://www.icann.org/en/about/governance/bylaws#VI-8>, Art. X, Section 3(6)<http://www.icann.org/en/about/governance/bylaws#X-3>) and they must be confirmed by the GNSO Council at a meeting before April 16, 2014. Thus it is suggested that the Council call a special meeting with this one agenda item on Thursday, 10 April at 14:00 UTC (14:00 UTC a time slot that appears to cause the least pain all round). Please let us know if you will NOT be able to attend the extra brief meeting. Sally Costerton asked us to share with you the link to the report by Boston Consulting Group commissioned by ICANN, http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-2-24feb14-en.htm as well as inform you that there will be a blog up on Icann.org<http://Icann.org> in the next few days detailing the role of the Board groups. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you Mikey for getting out your notes so rapidly! Kind regards, Glen Glen de Saint Géry GNSO Secretariat gnso.secretariat@gnso.icann.org http://gnso.icann.org