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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#002060">Dear Farzaneh, All,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#002060">The operation procedures on elections has been uploaded to:
<a href="https://community.icann.org/x/x4VHBQ">https://community.icann.org/x/x4VHBQ</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#002060">Maryam Bakoshi</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#002060"> | SO/AC Collaboration Services Sr. Coordinator <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#002060">ICANN</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#002060"> | Internet Corporation got Assigned Names and Numbers <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#002060">S</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#002060">: Maryam.bakoshi.icann | <b>T</b>: +44 7846 471777<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">NCSG-EC <ncsg-ec-bounces@lists.ncsg.is> on behalf of NCSG EC <NCSG-EC@lists.ncsg.is><br>
<b>Reply-To: </b>farzaneh badii <farzaneh.badii@gmail.com><br>
<b>Date: </b>Wednesday, 4 July 2018 at 16:20<br>
<b>To: </b>Tapani Tarvainen <ncsg@tapani.tarvainen.info><br>
<b>Cc: </b>NCSG EC <NCSG-EC@lists.ncsg.is><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[Ext] Re: [NCSG-EC] Gender and regional balance rules<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Maryam, can you please upload this operating procedures on elections on wiki space under operating procedures section. Thanks <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 10:59 AM Tapani Tarvainen via NCSG-EC <<a href="mailto:ncsg-ec@lists.ncsg.is">ncsg-ec@lists.ncsg.is</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear Farzaneh and EC members,<br>
<br>
As several people have asked me about this issue, perhaps it's useful<br>
if I summarize what happened.<br>
<br>
The confusion is of course my fault: EC decisions then were not<br>
recorded in any easily findable way. (One of the things I'd planned<br>
but failed to do was building archive/records pages for NCSG.) I did<br>
try to post important decisions to ncsg-discuss, however, and did so<br>
in this case as well.<br>
<br>
So, a brief history:<br>
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After 2016 elections there was a lot of dicussion about election<br>
procedures in ncsg-discuss. Eventually a separate election-reform<br>
mailing list was formed to deal with them, with all ncsg members<br>
invited to join. Many things are still open, some left to a future<br>
charter change, but two issues were at least temporarily resolved.<br>
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In particular, the gender and regional balance procedure was first<br>
posted to the election list on July 9, 2017 and then to EC list as<br>
part of EC meeting agenda. It was approved on EC call on 28 July and<br>
that decision, along with the procedure text, was sent to ncsg-discuss<br>
on August 1, and it (point 6) was used to resolve who who got 1-year<br>
term in council. Thus it's rather clear it was the rule that was in<br>
effect last year.<br>
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For reference:<br>
<br>
The final announcement message in ncsg-discuss can be found here:<br>
<br>
<a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__listserv.syr.edu_scripts_wa.exe-3FA2-3Dind1708-26L-3DNCSG-2DDISCUSS-26P-3D6532&d=DwMFaQ&c=FmY1u3PJp6wrcrwll3mSVzgfkbPSS6sJms7xcl4I5cM&r=1A9IIOkJia11FXDmJ1R4Jn7wGT4ExHiVuBF89mvNt_Q&m=eqQDmstJKplDKeROnOYZb7wqZDU8zoRw8hU_8tp82sg&s=qgV3MKuIMcjPmw35b36QCkweSqmLbEgorDOtZhHGTrY&e=" target="_blank">https://listserv.syr.edu/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind1708&L=NCSG-DISCUSS&P=6532
[listserv.syr.edu]</a><br>
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Transcript of the EC call on 28 July 2017 can be found here:<br>
<br>
<a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__community.icann.org_download_attachments_52891517_transcript-5Fncsgec-5F280717.pdf-3Fversion-3D1-26modificationDate-3D1501663417000-26api-3Dv2&d=DwMFaQ&c=FmY1u3PJp6wrcrwll3mSVzgfkbPSS6sJms7xcl4I5cM&r=1A9IIOkJia11FXDmJ1R4Jn7wGT4ExHiVuBF89mvNt_Q&m=eqQDmstJKplDKeROnOYZb7wqZDU8zoRw8hU_8tp82sg&s=923fmBBrfL3h_hiASJvGItFvgA3utLZQjz0zzFpqX8I&e=" target="_blank">https://community.icann.org/download/attachments/52891517/transcript_ncsgec_280717.pdf?version=1&modificationDate=1501663417000&api=v2
[community.icann.org]</a><br>
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and chat here:<br>
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<a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__community.icann.org_download_attachments_52891517_acchat-5Fncsgec-5F280717.pdf-3Fversion-3D1-26modificationDate-3D1501663432000-26api-3Dv2&d=DwMFaQ&c=FmY1u3PJp6wrcrwll3mSVzgfkbPSS6sJms7xcl4I5cM&r=1A9IIOkJia11FXDmJ1R4Jn7wGT4ExHiVuBF89mvNt_Q&m=eqQDmstJKplDKeROnOYZb7wqZDU8zoRw8hU_8tp82sg&s=rSwxUVP31TrM4_yq0-ZUwjtMR6SkJbH6uRLCOaEUtdk&e=" target="_blank">https://community.icann.org/download/attachments/52891517/acchat_ncsgec_280717.pdf?version=1&modificationDate=1501663432000&api=v2
[community.icann.org]</a><br>
<br>
and election-reform list text here:<br>
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<a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__lists.ncsg.is_pipermail_election-2Dreform_2017-2DJuly_000022.html&d=DwMFaQ&c=FmY1u3PJp6wrcrwll3mSVzgfkbPSS6sJms7xcl4I5cM&r=1A9IIOkJia11FXDmJ1R4Jn7wGT4ExHiVuBF89mvNt_Q&m=eqQDmstJKplDKeROnOYZb7wqZDU8zoRw8hU_8tp82sg&s=vETjJmgL9gm7sh0hKELlQJEFFjD3ln_F1ppvLf1Uku4&e=" target="_blank">https://lists.ncsg.is/pipermail/election-reform/2017-July/000022.html
[lists.ncsg.is]</a><br>
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If you read those you'll see there wasn't actually much discussion<br>
even though there was a fair amount of time for it, but I assume<br>
that's simply because there's nothing particularly controversial about<br>
it: it mostly follows straight from the Charter, just clarifying some<br>
borderline cases and writing it out as a procedure that can be easily<br>
followed.<br>
<br>
Much more contentious was the None-of-the-Above issue, where I ended<br>
up calling ICANN legal for opinion and it was decided to follow it for<br>
time being but consider revising it in charter reform later.<br>
(It was basically to do ballots the way Robin did when she was chair<br>
in 2012, i.e., no explicit NotA but allow abstentions.)<br>
<br>
EC discussed it in the same call (see above linked transcript/chat)<br>
and election-reform list thread about it begins here:<br>
<br>
<a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__lists.ncsg.is_pipermail_election-2Dreform_2017-2DJuly_000023.html&d=DwMFaQ&c=FmY1u3PJp6wrcrwll3mSVzgfkbPSS6sJms7xcl4I5cM&r=1A9IIOkJia11FXDmJ1R4Jn7wGT4ExHiVuBF89mvNt_Q&m=eqQDmstJKplDKeROnOYZb7wqZDU8zoRw8hU_8tp82sg&s=txnjmtmgQ18vuJOGSObnRbnhhE7qBcPgMdhlQI1szac&e=" target="_blank">https://lists.ncsg.is/pipermail/election-reform/2017-July/000023.html
[lists.ncsg.is]</a><br>
<br>
Hope this helps,<br>
<br>
-- <br>
Tapani Tarvainen<br>
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