Thank you, Stephen and Manal. Staff would like to kindly remind that according to ICANN Bylaws, section 7.8(c), the EC Administration shall promptly provide the Secretary (with a copy to the Decisional Participants) with written notice of the designation of the Board Director. Similar to previous notifications staff drafted the attached note and is happy to forward the notice on behalf of the EC Administration to speed up the process if you have no objections. Please let us know. Kind regards, Ozan Sahin (on behalf of the staff supporting Empowered Community Administration) From: ECAdmin <ecadmin-bounces@icann.org> on behalf of Manal Ismail <manal@tra.gov.eg> Date: Monday, September 17, 2018 at 2:54 PM To: "Stephen Deerhake @ ASNIC" <sdeerhake@nic.as>, nomcom2018 <nomcom2018@icann.org>, "ECadmin@ICANN.org" <ECadmin@ICANN.org> Cc: NomCom Operations Team <nomcom-ops-team@icann.org>, Zahid Jamil-IG <internet@jamilandjamil.com>, John Jeffrey <john.jeffrey@icann.org> Subject: Re: [ECAdmin] ICANN 2018 NomCom Selected Nominee to ICANN Board of Directors Many thanks Zahid for the update and Stephen for the quick response on behalf of the ECA .. Kind Regards --Manal From: ECAdmin [mailto:ecadmin-bounces@icann.org] On Behalf Of Stephen Deerhake @ ASNIC Sent: Monday, September 17, 2018 9:11 AM To: nomcom2018; ECadmin@ICANN.org Cc: NomCom Operations Team; Zahid Jamil-IG; John Jeffrey Subject: Re: [ECAdmin] ICANN 2018 NomCom Selected Nominee to ICANN Board of Directors I’ll get a letter out to JJ on behalf of the ECA within the next couple of days. Best Regards, Stephen Deerhake ccSNSO Representative to the ECA From: ECAdmin <ecadmin-bounces@icann.org<mailto:ecadmin-bounces@icann.org>> on behalf of nomcom2018 <nomcom2018@icann.org<mailto:nomcom2018@icann.org>> Date: Monday, September 17, 2018 at 08:08 To: "ECadmin@ICANN.org<mailto:ECadmin@ICANN.org>" <ECadmin@ICANN.org<mailto:ECadmin@ICANN.org>> Cc: NomCom Operations Team <nomcom-ops-team@icann.org<mailto:nomcom-ops-team@icann.org>>, Zahid Jamil-IG <internet@jamilandjamil.com<mailto:internet@jamilandjamil.com>>, John Jeffrey <john.jeffrey@icann.org<mailto:john.jeffrey@icann.org>> Subject: [ECAdmin] ICANN 2018 NomCom Selected Nominee to ICANN Board of Directors Dear Empowered Community Administration, Due to unforeseen circumstances one of our ICANN Board of Director selectees, Ms. Lousewies van der Laan, has informed the 2018 Nominating Committee that she will be unable to fulfill her duties of appointment. In light of this notification, the 2018 Nominating Committee announced [icann.org]<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.icann.org_news_anno...> today 16 September 2018 that it has now appointed Danko Jevtovic (Europe) to serve in her place. As per ICANN Bylaws, Article 7 Board of Directors, Section 7.8 (a)(i) it is my pleasure to inform you of the 2018 Nominating Committee selected nominee for the ICANN Director position, Seat 2. Best regards, Sent by the NomCom staff on behalf of Zahid Jamil Chair, ICANN 2018 Nominating Committee Cc: Decisional Participants (ALAC, ASO, ccNSO, GAC and GNSO) and ICANN Secretary