Dear all, We recently sent out an email to the global list with a summary of the regional provisions governing the ALAC elections and a proposed timeline for the regional elections . This email is to provide you a detailed overview of the situation in North America and assist you with the organization of the elections. There will be one NARALO ALAC representative up for election this year as Beau Brendler¹s term ends at the close of the Cairo meeting. Please note that Alan Greenberg¹s term also expires at the close of the Cairo meeting. His seat will be filled by a NomCom appointment which will be announced in September. Beau Brendler has been nominated for a second term in an email sent by Robert Guerra on June 7th. Evan Leibovitch then sent an email to the list where he suggested having an election during the NARALO July meeting. According to the summary minutes, there has not yet been an ALAC election. With regards to the election process, the NARALO Operating Principles state that the length of the nomination period shall be 30 days and the start of nomination period shall be on or before 1 July (OP 11). The election date shall be "sufficiently in advance of ICANN's annual meeting" (OP 11). North America is one of the regions that have adopted detailed Rules of Procedure for meetings. Provisions for elections and voting during meetings can be found under: https://st.icann.org/naralo/index.cgi?ralo_organizing_documents <https://st.icann.org/naralo/index.cgi?ralo_organizing_documents It is up to the region to decide if it wishes to treat the election as if it were a meeting. Alternatively, NARALO can decide to adopt the following election process that has been suggested to the regional organizations without specified provisions : * The regional Secretariat will make a call for election no later than seven weeks before the start of the annual ICANN meeting (14 September 2008) * Nominations shall be accepted for two weeks after the Secretariat calls for nominations (until 28 September 2008) * The nominees need to accept their nomination no later than seven days after the nomination period ends (05 October 2008) * The election shall begin no later than one week after the end of the acceptance deadline (12 October 2008) and end not later than two weeks before the start of the annual ICANN meeting. (19 October 2008). In other words, votes would actually be cast between 12 to 19 October 2008. The votes would be cast via an electronic voting system (www.bigpulse.com). To facilitate this election, we ask the NARALO Secretariat to send us a note on the election procedures the region would like to adopt. Regards, Nick Ashton-Hart, Matthias Langenegger, Frederic Teboul ICANN At-Large Staff email: staff@atlarge.icann.org