Congrats Tapani! Thank you to those who voted for me, and I’m happy that the NCSG has roundly supported a great candidate for Chair.

I wish you all the best in the role.



Congrats to our councillors as well, a lot of important votes will come up over your terms on critical issues that will shape the future of both ICANN and the approach we have to the DNS in general.



-James





On 15 Sep 2015, at 10:03, Rafik Dammak <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:



Dear NCSG Members,





The NCSG annual election results are back and attached to this email.



Congrats to the new NCSG Chair Tapani Tarvainen   and to the NCSG's 3 elected GNSO Councillors: Stefania Milan (2 years term), Amr Elsadr(2 years term) and Marilia Maciel (2 year term).



A deep thanks to the other candidates, the nominators, and everyone who checked-in, voted in the election.  And also we couldn't have held the election without the tireless assistance of our admin support Maryam Bakoshi and  Glen de Saint Gery from ICANN staff . Special thanks to our departing councillor for her work and representing NCSG within the GNSO council, Avri Doria.



I am really happy that we got a record turnout this time with 233 ballots casted .



The term for these positions begins at the conclusion of the ICANN meeting 54 in Dublin



 Voters can check their individual ballot ID against the list of votes cast (attached) to verify that their vote was counted correctly.



Finally, all election details are summarized in this page https://community.icann.org/display/gnsononcomstake/Elections-2015



if you have any question please feel free to ask me.

Best Regards,



Rafik Dammak



NCSG chair (for few weeks)

<2015 Annual Election of ICANN NCSG.pdf>