Dear Chuck,

I am wondering whether you and the GNSO council have an explanation for why the election of the chair for the post Cartagena council is being selected by the current council.

I know that your term ends in Cartagena, but you have 2 very capable v-chairs that could lead during the brief period between the end of the Cartagena meeting and the announcement of election results, especially if the email ballot started soon after the Cartagena meeting ended.  I mean one of them seems likely to become the chair anyway, so having the two of them share the chair for a brief period does not seem all that problematic.

I do not know that it would change anything, but it would allow the incoming council members to have a stake in the selection of the chair they will have to work with for the next year.  The issue came up in our last NCSG Policy meeting and no one was able to give an adequate explanation of the council's current decision, so I am asking whether there is one. 

Note: we have reelected our same two council members, Bill and Mary, to another term, so this is not an issue that the NCSG has a stake in, just one we don't understand.

Best Regards,

a.