[NCSG-PC] Election of Board seat 14: Preliminary discussion with current incumbent on Friday January31st

[Stephanie Perrin]

Members may be aware that we have agreed election procedures for Board 
seat 14 with our colleagues in the Non-contracted party house.  Those 
procedures are now part of the GNSO operating procedures (see link 
below).  Matthew Shears is the current incumbent of Board seat 14, and 
his term expires at the Annual General meeting in October 2020.  He is 
interested in running again for another term.  We are commencing 
discussions with our colleagues in the BC, IPC, and ISPC, and we have 
asked Matthew Shears to have a preliminary discussion with our own 
members this Friday, January 31st, at 13:00 UTC.  I have asked Maryam 
Bakoshi to arrange for the zoom room and Ozan Sahin will be handling the 
call for us.  I will ask her to share the zoom room coordinates when we 
get this set up.

Please join us for a discussion with Matthew!  It is quite a challenge 
to represent both commercial and non-commercial interests at ICANN, and 
finding candidates with the right skill set is also challenging.  Bring 
your questions about the role to the meeting on Friday.


Kind regards,

Stephanie Perrin

NCSG Chair

https://gnso.icann.org/sites/default/files/file/field-file-attach/op-procedures-24oct19-en.pdf 
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