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<p>Extending to Monday to accept the nominations that a participant
on the call said were standing by, need not extend the timeline.
We do believe in elections first. The timelines are decided by
this group in consultation with staff, according to ICANN
requirements, but I would point out that ICANN announced elections
to be held a month earlier in order to accommodate travel
schedules. We are almost certain we are holding a virtual meeting
again, so even if we did go over time, there would be no impact on
other stakeholders.</p>
<p>I was seeking your views, not proposing violating the charter.
Members were upset by the fact that Elsa did not turn down the
nomination in time for them to nominate others. As I have said
before, the more the merrier. If people want the positions, they
ought to compete. But there we are. Plenty of time for people to
put their names forward and send in a candidate statement, if we
closed Monday. But if you prefer to appoint people, how do you
propose we run that process, wait until the election is over and
then just appoint the number of councillors required, through a
submission of names process?</p>
<p>Kind regards, <br>
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<p>Stephanie<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2020-05-29 1:06 p.m., Robin Gross
via NCSG-EC wrote:<br>
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Hi Raphael,
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<div class="">The charter provides that when there is a vacancy on
the Council, the NCSG EC appoints that position. Since we do
not have enough candidates to fill the slots, we have vacancies.
Those vacancies should be appointed by the NCSG EC as usual.
If there are candidates who wish to fill those seats, they
should make us aware of it and we can appoint them asap. I’m
not in favor of extending the nomination period until there are
sufficient candidates. The nomination process has ended and the
voting is about to begin according to our timeline. We need to
get those slots filled so the folks can assume those positions
asap and the membership can focus on things other than constant
elections. Also, others in ICANN shouldn’t have to wait for
NCSG to fill the slots by more protracted means, which would not
even guarantee we have nominations at the end and we would be
back to where we are now. We are part of a larger community and
others depend on us to operate according to anticipated
timelines and documented processes.</div>
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<div class="">Are you suggesting we appoint someone? I'm
not sure what part of the charter you are referring
to. I could not find language in the charter that fits
our current circumstances, that is a defacto vacancy
for lack of candidates. There is the second paragraph
of 3.2, but that seems to be limited to a vacancy
during the term of a councilor, as we did with
Farzaneh if I remember correctly. I might have missed
the relevant language though.</div>
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<div class="">In any case, please don't misinterpret my
question; I'm not suggesting we should be fighting
over the meaning of Charter words! Whether mandated or
not, I'd be fine appointing someone, but ideally I
would prefer us to be clear on why we are doing what
we decide to do. </div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, May 29, 2020
at 12:11 PM Robin Gross via NCSG-EC <<a href="mailto:ncsg-ec@lists.ncsg.is" class="" moz-do-not-send="true">ncsg-ec@lists.ncsg.is</a>>
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rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I’m strongly in
favor of following what the charter dictates in this
instance and therefore we should do our duty and make
the appointment as directed by our foundational
document. Thank you.<br class="">
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Best,<br class="">
Robin<br class="">
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> On May 29, 2020, at 7:22 as AM, Stephanie E
Perrin via NCSG-EC <<a href="mailto:ncsg-ec@lists.ncsg.is" target="_blank" class="" moz-do-not-send="true">ncsg-ec@lists.ncsg.is</a>>
wrote:<br class="">
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> Hi folks,<br class="">
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> Those who were on the call today will know that
Elsa has indicated she is not running for Council
again this year. We are thus short of candidates,
having only three (Julf, Juan, and myself) for 4
positions. This is far from ideal, and it was pointed
out by one member on the call that there were other
people who were willing to come forward.<br class="">
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> Is it your wish that we open up nominations again
for a couple of days, or just leave the EC to appoint?<br class="">
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> Stephanie<br class="">
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