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. --------------------------------------- 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! > > Thanks! > > Debbie > > > > > > *Debra Y. Hughes** l** Senior Counsel* > *American Red Cross* > > Office of the General Counsel > 2025 E Street, NW > Washington, D.C. 20006 > Phone: (202) 303-5356 > Fax: (202) 303-0143 > [log in to unmask] > ------------------------------ > > *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 > > > > Hello, > > > > 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. :-) > > > > 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: > > > > *SG Allocated Slots* > > > > Brian Cute (RgySG, Afilias, USA) > Warren Adelman (Rgr, GoDaddy, USA) > > Olivier Muron (CSG, Cap Digital, France) > > Willie Curie (NCSG, APC, South Africa) > > > > *Open Elected Slot* > > > > Hakikur Rahman (NCSG,ICMS Foundation, Bangladesh) > > > > *Unaffiliated Elected Slot* > > > > Elaine Pruis (Minds and Machines, USA) > > > > > > Congratulations to Willie and Hakik, and best of luck in the next step of > the process, the final selections by Janis and Peter. > > > > 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. > > > > Best, > > > > Bill > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > *********************************************************** > William J. Drake > Senior Associate > Centre for International Governance > Graduate Institute of International and > Development Studies > Geneva, Switzerland > [log in to unmask] > www.graduateinstitute.ch/cig/drake.html > *********************************************************** > > >