As one of our councillors had to cancel their travel, we have a spare travel slot that we need to assign before January 17th. I am hereby requesting those of you who are interested to submit (as per the NCSG operating procedures) your Motivation Statement to me by private email, copying ICANN support staff. As we need some time to evaluate the statements, the deadline to submit your statements is Friday, January 12. The operating procedures stipulate that: - 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. - 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). (see https://community.icann.org/display/gnsononcomstake/Operating+Procedures#OperatingProcedures-996937310) Julf