Members may be aware that we have agreed election procedures for Board 

seat 14 with our colleagues in the Non-contracted party house.  Those 

procedures are now part of the GNSO operating procedures (see link 

below).  Matthew Shears is the current incumbent of Board seat 14, and 

his term expires at the Annual General meeting in October 2020.  He is 

interested in running again for another term.  We are commencing 

discussions with our colleagues in the BC, IPC, and ISPC, and we have 

asked Matthew Shears to have a preliminary discussion with our own 

members this Friday, January 31st, at 13:00 UTC.  I have asked Maryam 

Bakoshi to arrange for the zoom room and Ozan Sahin will be handling the 

call for us.  I will ask her to share the zoom room coordinates when we 

get this set up.



Please join us for a discussion with Matthew!  It is quite a challenge 

to represent both commercial and non-commercial interests at ICANN, and 

finding candidates with the right skill set is also challenging.  Bring 

your questions about the role to the meeting on Friday.





Kind regards,



Stephanie Perrin



NCSG Chair



https://gnso.icann.org/sites/default/files/file/field-file-attach/op-procedures-24oct19-en.pdf 

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