Fellow IPC Members,

I am extremely pleased to report to you that the Commercial Stakeholders Group and the Non-Commercial Stakeholders Group have jointly nominated Heather Forrest of the IPC as the Non-Contracted Parties House candidate for Chair of the GNSO Council.

I think that this is a great moment for the IPC, the CSG, the NCSG, then NCPH and the GNSO. Our ability to work together and come to a common understanding (and a timely one) is critical not only for our interests but for the future of the GNSO and the multistakeholder model. As with any multistakeholder exercise, this was the result of a process; in this case, we see that the process can bring us all to a positive result.

Congratulations, Heather! On to the election....

Greg Shatan

IPC President

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From: Metalitz, Steven <met@msk.com>

Date: Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 3:00 PM

Subject: NCPH nomination for GNSO council chair

To: "gnso.secretariat@gnso.icann.org" <gnso.secretariat@gnso.icann.org>

Cc: Phil Corwin <psc@vlaw-dc.com>, Edward Morris <egmorris1@toast.net>, Rafik Dammak <rafik.dammak@gmail.com>, "avri@acm.org" <avri@acm.org>, David Cake <dave@difference.com.au>, Stephanie Perrin <stephanie.perrin@mail.utoronto.ca>, Marilia Maciel <mariliamaciel@gmail.com>, "David Fares (dfares@21cf.com)" <dfares@21cf.com>, Tony Harris <harris@cabase.org.ar>, "Tony Holmes (tonyarholmes@btinternet.com)" <tonyarholmes@btinternet.com>, Amr Elsadr <aelsadr@egyptig.org>, "Greg Shatan (gregshatanipc@gmail.com)" <gregshatanipc@gmail.com>

On behalf of our respective stakeholder groups, we are pleased jointly to nominate Heather Forrest to serve as chair of the GNSO Council beginning at the conclusion of the forthcoming Dublin meeting. Please acknowledge the timely submission of this nomination on behalf of the Non-Contracted Parties House. Thank you.

Rafik Dammak, for NCSG

Steve Metalitz, for CSG