Dear RIPE community, I would like to bring to your attention the nomination process for members to the ICANN board - message from http://www.aso.icann.org/index.html I have also included the list of nominees from a previous period - in case you need ideas to suggest. Please help the Address Council by making sure we have good candidates to choose from ! Best Regards, Hans Petter Holen Address Council member RIPE region/Vice chair ----- In line with the ASO Memorandum of Understanding and ICANN Bylaws, the Address Council calls for nominations for Seat Number 9 on the ICANN Board. *The nomination period will close at 23:59 (UTC) on 22 February 2009.* All candidates must sign a /Letter of Certification/ detailing previous conduct and character. We will send this letter to each applicant along with instructions on what to do next. We are unable to consider candidates who fail to follow these instructions. If the Address Council decides to conduct face-to-face interviews, candidates may need to travel (once) during either March or April 2009. We expect all candidates to complete one or more questionnaires. Failure to do this by the advised deadlines may rule them out of the selection process. *Submit nominations by email to secretariat@aso.icann.org <mailto:secretariat@aso.icann.org> including the following information:* * Full name of the person being nominated * Contact email address for the person being nominated * Contact telephone number (if available) of the person being nominated * Full name of the person making the nomination * Contact email address for the person making the nomination

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Dear Colleagues,

This is a final reminder that the comment period for nominees to the ASO's ICANN Board seat closes at 18:00 UTC on 20 April 2007.

Following a public nomination period, the ASO Address Council (ASO AC) selected the final set of candidates to fill the ASO seat on the ICANN Board currently held by Raimundo Beca, whose term expires in June 2007. The candidates are:

- Al-Din J. Kadhem Al-Radhi - Smain Aouissi - Raimundo Beca - Vikram Gupta - Jordi Palet Martinez - Remco Van Mook - Shahmeet Singh - Kuo-Wei Wu

In May 2007, the ASO AC will make its final selection to appoint one of these individuals to fill the ASO Board seat. To aid them in making their final selection, the ASO AC members request your comments and statements of support for these candidates.

If you would like to add a statement of support for any candidate, please send it to the ASO AC Nominations Committee at: board-nomms@aso.icann.org

All comments received are being published on the ASO website. To view them, follow the links for each candidate at: http://www.aso.icann.org/elections

Kind Regards, ASO Secretariat

---------------------- Axel Pawlik

Managing Director RIPE NCC