I'll echo Wendy and Deb's comments.  More than once in Nairobi I
saw Bill patiently explain the process to other SGs.  Really a job well
done, bravo!

Also, many thanks to Willie and Hakikur, good luck!

Re: outreach. Would a couple people be interested in creating a small group
to discuss identification and cultivation of future RT candidates?  Contact
me off list if so.



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Brenden Kuerbis
Internet Governance Project
http://internetgovernance.org


On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 12:44 PM, Debra Hughes
<[log in to unmask]>wrote:

>  I would like to thank Bill for all of his hard work chairing the GNSO
> Evaluation Team!
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> Thanks!
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> Debbie
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> *Debra Y. Hughes** l** Senior Counsel*
> *American Red Cross*
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> *From:* Non-Commercial User Constituency [mailto:
> [log in to unmask]] *On Behalf Of *William Drake
> *Sent:* Monday, March 15, 2010 8:08 AM
> *To:* [log in to unmask]
> *Subject:* GNSO AoC RT Nominations Finalized
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> Hello,
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> Just a quick note before I forget...the Council just finished its special
> meeting to agree nominations for the accountability and transparency review
> team.  I am happy to report that all NCSG's endorsements were approved, i.e.
> our nominations of NCUC/SG's Willie Currie (South Africa) for the allocated
> slot and Hakikur Rahman (Bangladesh) for the open competitive slot, as well
> as of Elaine Pruis (USA) for the unaffiliated competitive slot.  The voting
> alignment was pretty straightforward: in both cases, the RgySG, RgrSG, NCSG,
> and NCAs voted yes, and the CSG voted no.  :-)
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> So Chuck Gomes will now notify Janis and Peter (two days early!) that the
> GNSO is nominating the following six people for the four GNSO RT slots
> approved by the board in Nairobi:
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> *SG Allocated Slots*
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> Brian Cute (RgySG, Afilias, USA)
> Warren Adelman (Rgr, GoDaddy, USA)
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> Olivier Muron (CSG, Cap Digital, France)
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> Willie Curie (NCSG, APC, South Africa)
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> *Open Elected Slot*
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> Hakikur Rahman (NCSG,ICMS Foundation, Bangladesh)
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> *Unaffiliated Elected Slot*
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> Elaine Pruis (Minds and Machines, USA)
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> Congratulations to Willie and Hakik, and best of luck in the next step of
> the process, the final selections by Janis and Peter.
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> BTW one might add that because of the smaller than expected applicant pool
> (eleven GNSO candidates for this RT) and their distribution across
> categories, it proved very difficult to satisfy the geographic and gender
> diversity requirements that NCSG was instrumental in establishing.  But we
> came reasonably, and even surprisingly, close.  It may well be that when the
> drafting team revisits the issues to establish a permanent GNSO RT
> application process, we will have to relax the rules slightly; it is clear
> that there will significant if not uniform demand for this from other SGs.
>  But that's for later.
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> Best,
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> Bill
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> Centre for International Governance
> Graduate Institute of International and
>  Development Studies
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