<div dir="auto"><div>Thanks Michaela,<div dir="auto">I understand we are close to holidays season but we are also pretty late regarding the election. We really need to have someone to take over asap. Tomslin helped for some time after the end of his term and there is some vacancy now. I can support partly but I am not really supposed to lead PC by the charter.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Best,</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Rafik</div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Dec 17, 2025, 21:05 Michaela Nakayama Shapiro <<a href="mailto:michaela.shapiro@article19.org">michaela.shapiro@article19.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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While I completely agree that we need a new chair as soon as possible, I wonder if we’ll have better luck with finding a strong slate of candidates if we keep the call open until the first week of January, with the vote shortly after?</div>
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This is based on many folks in Europe (or I can speak for myself, the ARTICLE 19 team) already being off for the holidays and not back into the 2nd or even the 5th of January. Additionally, with competing deadlines at the end of the year for our day jobs, it’s
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<span style="font-size:12pt">If others agree with the proposed timeline I’m of course all in! Sharing a few additional considerations but very aware these are based on my situation and may not be applicable more broadly :)</span><br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [NCSG-PC] PC chair election</font>
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<div dir="ltr">On Tue, Dec 16, 2025, 08:06 Rafik Dammak <<a href="mailto:rafik.dammak@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">rafik.dammak@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">I propose we run this for one week to end by the time of winter holidays. Starting the call for candidates on Wednesday 17th to Friday 19th December then, starting vote from Monday to Wednesday 24th December. I know Andrea and ICANN will be off
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