Is the Carlos nominated for the GNSO Council the same Carlos as is the South American Region representative?

Cheryl B. Preston
Edwin M. Thomas
Professor of Law
J. Reuben Clark Law School
Brigham Young University
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>>> Milton L Mueller <[log in to unmask]> 9/22/2008 10:08 am >>>
Good question, Carlos. For the first three seats, we will follow our
existing charter: each of the three must be from a different region. So
since we already have a LAC Council rep (you) and since Robin is
stepping down and Norbert MAY step down, the first two additions could
come from:

Africa
Asia-Pacific**
North America
Europe

For the additional three, it is unclear until we adopt a new set of
rules. I would propose that we get as many candidates from as many
regions as possible running and we see how strong and how popular (how
many votes) the candidates are. 

**Norbert Klein (AP region) is in a discretionary position, which is to
our advantage. He has the option to serve out his existing term, or to
resign early because of the Nomcom appointment. Suppose a good candidate
from AP region comes along, and gets a significant number of votes. If
Norbert wants to escape the Council, he could leave immediately, or stay
in office from October to January (or whenever the change to the new,
6-person Council is made) then he could resign and we could appoint the
new person from AP. In the transition period (October - January) Norbert
could be "educating" the new person about how the Council works. Suppose
on the other hand we get no volunteers from AP region or the ones we
get, do not get many votes relative to candidates from other regions.
Then Norbert could stay on until the end of his term. 

Milton Mueller
Professor, Syracuse University School of Information Studies
XS4All Professor, Delft University of Technology
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carlos Affonso Pereira de Souza [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
> Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2008 11:00 AM
> To: Milton L Mueller; [log in to unmask] 
> Subject: RES: Nominations for NCUC Chair and GNSO Council
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> Hi all:
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> Just a quick question: do we still have any regional constrains for
> the council nominations or since we are moving into a new structure we
> can end up having two or more representatives from the same region?
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> Apart from that I would like to second the nomination of Robin Gross
> for Chair.
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> Best,
> Carlos
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> -----Mensagem original-----
> De: Non-Commercial User Constituency em nome de Milton L Mueller
> Enviada: dom 21/9/2008 03:30
> Para: [log in to unmask] 
> Assunto: Nominations for NCUC Chair and GNSO Council
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> I nominate for chair: 
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> Robin Gross
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> - Mary Wong
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> Also, Norbert, under these conditions we may need for you to serve out
> that extra year of your current term, Nomcom notwithstanding. 
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> * as a provisional individual member his eligibility would 
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> for the new GNSO structure to be implemented, but that could 
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