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ICANN's Nominating Committee (NomCom) is responsible for the selection of eight ICANN Board Members, two directors of the Public Technical Identifiers (PTI) and for other selections as are set forth in the Bylaws. (See Article 8, Section 8.1).

The NomCom is also charged with appointing some members of the ALAC, ccNSO Council and the GNSO Council. The NomCom complements the other means for filling a portion of key ICANN leadership positions achieved within the SOs and ACs.

As per the ICANN Bylaws (Article 8, Section 8.2) Address Supporting Organization Address Council (ASO AC) is pleased to invite nominations for candidates from the "Internet Numbers Community" to run for an open seat on the ICANN NomCom 2020 as delegate of the ASO. The term for the selected delegate will be one year starting in ICANN 66 in Montreal, Canada November 2019 (See Article 8, Section 8.3 for term limits)

All ICANN Bylaws described above can be found here: https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/governance/bylaws-en/#article8

Time Commitment for the ASO NomCom Representative:

  • The person should be able to join monthly teleconferences (typically 15:00 or 16:00 UTC). Note that the committee’s workload will increase significantly during Apr/May/June 2020 when the candidate assessment process will be at its busiest. Conference calls are held more frequently (typically weekly and the duration of the calls may last up to 3 hours) during this time.
  • The person should be able to join (in person) 3 ICANN (66, 67 and 68) meetings and an intercessional meeting (location decided by NomCom 2020). Travel support for all meetings is provided by ICANN.
  • The person must be able to attend the NomCom selection meeting in late June 2020 during ICANN68.

The ICANN NomCom has a set of guidelines and procedures documents for reference that provide additional information about the work of the NomCom.

The ASO AC will be responsible for the selection of the delegate based on the below timeline.

Announcement of call for nominations for 2020 ICANN NomCom: 5 July 2019

Nomination period ends: 28 July 2019

Evaluation of nominations by the ASO AC: 28 July - 7 August 2019

Voting period by the ASO AC: 7 August - 14 August 2019

Announcement of selected delegate: 15 August 2019

All nominations should be sent to secretariat@aso.icann.org by 28 July 2019 23:59 UTC   

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Dear colleagues,

Following the appointment of Mr Patrisse Deesse as the Interim Chief Executive Officer (CEO), AFRINIC is pleased to announce that Mr Nirmal Manic, the current Chief Accountant, will be the Acting Finance and Accounting Director effective 27 July 2019. Mr Deesse is the substantive Finance and Accounting Director, and will serve as the Interim CEO from 27 July 2019 until the position is filled. The two appointments follow the resignation of Mr Alan Barrett as CEO effective 26 July 2019. Members are requested to accord Mr Deesse and Mr Manic the usual support and cooperation they need during the transition period. 

We would like to extend our warmest congratulations to Mr Deesse and Manic on their appointments and wish them success.

For and on behalf of the CEO's Office

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