Greetings Ozan,

As you state in your email,

“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.”

Could you have been more snarky with that comment?  SERIOUSLY?

“Shall promptly provide…”

With the blessings and support of my fellow Empowered Community Administration colleagues, I currently “hold the pen” for us.  Thus, any formal communication between the ECA and ICANN comes under my signature.

Nigel

So you caught me whist I was in the middle of a 35+h trip over 9 time zones to represent ICANN’s interests at a regional organization meeting, most members of which are rather skeptical of ICANN and its mission to begin with.

And really now, what does “promptly provide…” mean in ICANN-speak anyway?

Ironically, in your admonition to the Empowered Community Administration, you forgot half of your homework, which was the ECA having to rescind its prior endorsement of the NomCom’s submission of  Lousewies van der Laan for Board Seat 2.  As you have seen from the paperwork I have submitted to John Jeffrey, I have done this on behalf of the Empowered Community Administration.  And additionally, I have endorsed, on behalf of my fellow ECA members, the selection of Demic  Jevtovic to fill Board Seat 2, per the NomCom’s recommendation, beginning at the conclusion of the upcoming ICANN meeting.

Lastly, I want to state, both on my behalf and also on behalf of my fellow Empowered Community Administration members, that UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES can you or fellow ICANN Staff members assume to “act for us”, such as, as you suggest “…happy to forward the notice on behalf of the EC Administration to speed up the process.”  This is simply NOT acceptable.  I’m happy to review (and possibly accept) proposed language from staff for a particular circumstance, but again, under no circumstances can you or fellow ICANN Staff assume to act on behalf of the Empowered Community Administration.

You and fellow ICANN Staff really need to understand that…

I am open to discussing this with your further…

Best Regards,

Stephen Deerhake

ccNSO Representative to the Empowered Community Administration

sdeerhake@nic.as

From: ECAdmin <ecadmin-bounces@icann.org> on behalf of Ozan Sahin <ozan.sahin@icann.org>
Date: Tuesday, September 18, 2018 at 12:36
To: "ECadmin@ICANN.org" <ECadmin@ICANN.org>
Subject: Re: [ECAdmin] ICANN 2018 NomCom Selected Nominee to ICANN Board of Directors

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> on behalf of nomcom2018 <nomcom2018@icann.org>
Date: Monday, September 17, 2018 at 08:08
To: "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: [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] 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