Dear Colleagues, In light of Evan's interest in serving as Chair, I decided to defer to his substantial enthusiasm and ability to make the time-commitment to the NARALO and give him my support, rather than running against him. Evan will make a fine chair of the NA-RALO. At the close of the nomination period, Evan is our only candidate for Chair. Our NA-RALO meeting is Tuesday in Los Angeles from 10:00 am Pacific - 1:00 pm Pacific. (Personally, I think we can plan to end at noon.) Because Evan will not be physically present in Los Angeles, what I suggest is that I continue to serve as Interim Chair through the Tuesday meeting, and as the last order of business on the Tuesday agenda, we elect Evan as Chair by acclamation for a term that will begin immediately and end at the close of ICANN's annual meeting in 2008. If you have any objections to this process, please feel free to raise them with me off list. -- Bret -- Bret Fausett (skype me at "lextext") smime.p7s is a digital signature http://www.imc.org/smime-pgpmime.html -------------------------------------