Dear Marilia, Avri, all:

ICANN's rules about regions are indeed somewhat strange, but for now
we'll have to live by them. If we find them too burdensome we could
try to amend our charter, but that would be a long and probably not
easy process.

As per our charter each candidate should declare their region
themselves in their candidate statement, so presumably that would also
be the time that matters in case someone is transitioning during the
election process. In Marilia's case her description below indicates
she remains Brazilian by ICANN's rules anyway, so this is not an acute
consideration there.

--
Tapani Tarvainen

On Wed, Aug 03, 2016 at 01:06:16PM +0200, Marilia Maciel ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

> Dear Avri, dear all,
> 
> I just would like to make a comment on something that was mentioned before.
> 
> On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 11:05 PM, avri doria <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
> >
> > >
> > > The NCSG is assigned six (6) GNSO Council seats through the ICANN
> > > Bylaws. All NCSG GNSO Council representatives will be directly voted
> > > on by the full membership of the NCSG using weighted voting as defined
> > > in Section 4. To the maximum extent possible, no more than two (2)
> > > NCSG GNSO Council Representatives can be declared resident of the same
> > > geographic region as defined by ICANN. Reasonable efforts should be
> > > taken to recruit nominees so that all geographical regions may be
> > > represented by the NCSG GNSO Council Representatives. Reasonable
> > > efforts should also be taken to ensure gender balance and in no
> > > circumstance should there be fewer than 2 members of any gender.
> >
> > Our incumbents are Marilia ( recently moved to Europe) , Stefania (
> > Europe) and Amr (having moved back to Egypt) , which at the moment might
> > mean we already have 2 Europeans and 1  African, but no LAC, NA or AP
> > continuing, with one NA continuing.  We may not have an available
> > European seat.  We do seem, though, to have a male seat.
> >
> 
> Having consulted staff, I was informed that ICANN considers that someone's
> region is: a) the country of your citizenship; b) the country where you pay
> your taxes. For me, neither of these parameters have changed. My citzenship
> is the same and I will pay my taxes in Brazil. Others with more experience
> could confirm if this is correct and consistent with previous NCSG
> practice. I believe that a discussion about criteria among us would be
> useful and I am ok with any decision we made as a group, which should be
> consistently applied.
> 
> In any case, it is important to clarify that I started in my new position
> only yesterday, as annouced here:
> http://www.diplomacy.edu/blog/diplo’s-ig-team-welcomes-new-staff-members
> and consequently, my SOI will be updated in the following days.
> 
> All the best wishes,
> Marilia