Seems Stephanie Perrin can't make it to Kigali.

According to our operating procedures I am hereby asking interested
persons to send me their motivation statements, copying Andrea
([log in to unmask]).

Here is the relevant part from the NCSG operating procedures:

If a Council member or a funded NCSG Executive Committee cannot attend 
the meeting, the following process should be invoked to decide upon the 
travel slot transfer:

     The NCSG chair announces the opportunity on the NCSG-Discuss list 
and requests that the interested members send their Motivation Statement 
privately to the Chair and copy in ICANN support staff.

     The Motivation Statement must explain in detail why the applicant 
would like to attend the meeting, provide evidence of full and 
verifiable engagement in Domain Name System policy deliberations, proof 
that the applicant has previously attended calls and contributed to 
PDPs, NCSG Policy Committee meetings and other relevant policy and 
related meetings, and explain why their physical presence is important 
for this meeting, mentioning specific tasks they commit to carry out on 
behalf of the NCSG. The tasks must be related to the NCSG and advance 
the NCSG’s interests at that specific ICANN meeting.

     If the applicant is to be an alternate to a GNSO Councillor, he or 
she should have an understanding of how the Council works and have 
observed their meetings beforehand. They must provide a letter of 
recommendation from either a) the Chair of the NCSG Policy Committee, or 
(b) a serving member of the Council in his or her second term.

     While Execeutive Committee’ travel slots may be allocated to 
newcomers, newcomers should commit to attending  sessions of the NCSG 
leading up to the ICANN meeting, as well as undertaking revision and 
background reading on at least one internal governance document and a PDP.

     The applicant must commit to attending the ICANN meeting fully, be 
at the meeting venue every day, and be present to the greatest extent 
possible at all NCSG meetings, constituency meetings, GNSO Council 
meetings, and PDP sessions for which they have expressed interest in 
their Motivation Statement. If the selected applicant does not appear to 
be present at the venue without justification, s/he will not be eligible 
to be allocated a travel slot in the future. The decision of such 
ineligibility will be made by the NCSG Executive Committee (in the 
evaluation of at least two members).

	Julf