hi everyone

I've been doing some work for the ICANN nomcom process this weekend, 
and thought i should really drop a note about how it's all been going.

To remind, i was nominated by NCUC to the ICANN nomcom for 
2007.  Nomcom members don't represent consituencies of course, but 
they obviously bring to the group who they are, their values, 
principles, ideas etc.

This year, the work involves selecting candidates for seats that will 
become vacant at this years ICANN AGM - November (LA)? they are:

Board - 3 seats ; GNSO - 2 seats ; CCnso - 1 seat; ALAC - 3 seats - 
Asia-Pacific, LAC and Africa

We are now in the 'review and evaluation' phase of the process 
(http://nomcom.icann.org/#timeline), which will run up to  a face to 
meeting in Toronto, early July, for the *beginning* of the final 
selection process. (info about the numbers of applicants, 
geographical, gender etc can be found here : 
http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-30may07.htm)

There isn't that much i can tell you about the process, or 
candidates, that isn't public information - but it's certainly given 
me an opportunity to learn about ICANN, and think about ICANN in much 
more structured and focussed ways - and this is an experience not 
easy to come by for most of us wanting to participate in ICANN 
processes with limited or no resources - so i'm grateful to NCUC for 
that opportuinty.

I've also been working pretty hard, though you'll just have to 
believe me on that as i've no public proof ;)

milton's post to the Internet governance caucus list (in error) about 
the coming together of ALAC and NUCC in san juan in light of the 
Board governance committee report on the GNSO reform - urged me to post..

if you have any comments or questions in relation to nomcom that i 
can answer, i'm happy to..

to those in san juan, have a good week - seems like quite a heavy agenda..

do we have an NCUC agenda for the week?

karen