Dear all,

As you remember, on 11-Jan ICANN has posted a Call for Applicants for the Position of Volunteer Review Team Member with a deadline of 17-Feb. According to recent Mail exchange an extension may be granted by 1 week.

A WT of the GNSO council is preparing the related application process with regards to potential GNSO applicants. I'd like to keep you informed about the council actions under discussion:

• two separate endorsement processes: 1) one for the first review team that has a very short window; 2) one for the long term that could be applied for endorsementof volunteers for  future RTs.
• ASAP:
  - notify GNSO community members that the GNSO endorsement process is under development and encourage volunteers from the GNSO to submit applications via the ICANN process

- request that SGs, Constituencies and other GNSO groups encourage volunteers from their communities to submit applications via the ICANN process.

• 10  Feb:

- finalize a draft one-time process for the first Accountability and Transparency RT and distribute to the Council with a  motion for Council approval;
- publicly post and distribute draft process GNSO groups;
- send draft process to ICANN Staff and request that it be sent as soon as possible to all GNSO volunteers with a request that they complete the GNSOrequest for information and send it to the GNSO  Secretariat by 17 Feb or as soon thereafter as possible but not later than  22 Feb

• 18  Feb:
  - Council approval of the one-time process;

- Council  review & discussion of nominees identified to date;
- form an  evaluation team made up of one Councilor from each SG plus one NCA to rate the responses and report to the Council list not later than 23  Feb;

Request that the AoC Review DT continue its work to develop a longer-term process for Council consideration in March or  April.

• 24 Feb:  Hold a brief Council teleconference call to review volunteers and  finalize the list of volunteers endorsed by the GNSO for the 2010 Accountability and Transparency RT.
  

Proposed  Details for GNSO Endorsements under discussion:

The GNSO Council  will endorse up to six volunteers for the 2010 AoC Accountability and  Transparency RT as follows:
Endorsement  requires a simple majority vote of each house. Assuming there are volunteers who receive the necessary Council votes, at least one  volunteer should be endorsed from each house. No more than  two volunteers should come from the same geographical  region. Volunteers must  not all be of the same gender and at least 1/3 of each gender should be  represented if possible. In cases where  more than six total or more than one from a SG receive at least  a simple majority from each house, ties will be broken as  follows, in the order presented: 1) geographical and/or gender diversity; 

2) the total votes received; 3) the Council non-voting NCA will  be asked to break the tie.

I suggest to discuss this at our next call on 10-Feb as well as potential ISPCP member volunteering.

Have a nice weekend
Wolf-Ulrich