Dear SSC members, Thank you for all the thoughtful suggestions and kind input to help SSC’s process improve in the future. As a follow-up to today’s call, the SSC has reached preliminary agreement to recommend Imran Hossen as the GNSO-Appointed Mentor for the ICANN Fellowship Program. (See the candidate materials here<https://icann-community.atlassian.net/wiki/x/AYCxK>.) If you object to this recommendation, please respond on the mailing list no later than Friday, 30 January 2026, at 14:00 UTC. If no objections are received, the SSC will consider this to be a Full Consensus recommendation and submit it to the GNSO Council by 2 February 2026 with a motion for confirmation at its meeting on 12 February 2026. The preliminary decision will be sent to ICANN org by 10 February 2026, subject to confirmation on 12 February 2026. Thank you for your cooperation. Kind regards, Saewon Saewon Lee Policy Development Support Manager for GNSO Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Mobile: +1 (310) 463-5541 Email: saewon.lee@icann.org<mailto:saewon.lee@icann.org> Skype: saewon.lee.icann Website: www.icann.org<http://www.icann.org>