The seat 13 is defined in the ICANN Bylaws http://www.icann.org/general/bylaws.htm.
The resulting director will sit on the Board from mid 2003 until second
quarter 2004 |
This document compiles the GNSO Election Procedures for selecting an ICANN Board member for seat 13 during April and May 2003. It has been prepared to document the process for the information of the candidates for this seat.
Updated 9 March: Item 1 in DISCLOSURE OF THE VOTING. Liaisons from the ALAC or GAC to the GNSO Council remain on council@dnso.org list.
Nominations took place between xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.dnso.org/elections/2003.GNSO-ICANN-seat13-nomination-proc.html
Only the 18 GNSO Council members could make nominations.
X candidates were nominated and XX accepted their nominations.
http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/council/Arc12/msg00153.html
http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/icann-nominations/Arc03/
The nominations were:
There will be 4 eligible candidates:
The voting will be "convention style" voting. This consists of sequential rounds during which the candidates with the lowest number votes are eliminated until a single candidate receives a majority of the votes on the GNSO Council.
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Rounds 5 and subsequent, as needed: As scheduled, in Rio de Janeiro.
As provided in the ICANN bylaws http://www.icann.org/general/bylaws.htm, each GNSO Council member representing either the registrars constituency or the gTLD registries constituency will be entitled to cast two votes in each round. Members of the council representing the other four constituencies (Commercial and Business users, Non-Commercial users, Internet Service and Connectivity Providers, and Intellecual Property Interests constituency) will be entitled to cast one vote in each round.
The specifics of eliminations from subsequent rounds of voting:
Candidate 1 receives 0 votes Candidate 2 receives 2 vote Candidate 3 receives 4 votes Candidate 4 receives 6 vote Candidate 5 receives 8 vote Candidate 6 receives 2 vote
Candidate 1 is eliminated because he or she received zero votes. Candidates 2 and 6 are eliminated because they both received two votes, which is the lowest non-zero number. Candidates 3, 4, and 5 appear on the ballot in the next round.
Candidate 1 receives 2 votes Candidate 2 receives 11 votes Candidate 3 receives 2 votes Candidate 4 receives 9 votes
Candidates 1 and 3 are eliminated because they both received two votes, which is the lowest number. Only candidates 2 and 4 appear on the ballot in the next round.
Candidate 1 receives 6 votes Candidate 2 receives 12 votes Candidate 3 receives 6 votes
Candidates 1 and 3 are eliminated because they both received six votes, which is the lowest number. Because candidate 2 did not receive thirteen votes (a majority of 24), he or she is not selected in this round. An additional round will be run, with a single candidate, and candidate 2 must receive 13 affirmative votes to be victorious.
Only the existing eighteen members of the GNSO Council are entitled to vote, so there are a total of 24 votes to be cast and a majority is 13.
The arrangments regarding disclosure of voting will be very similar to the procedures followed in the past by the DNSO Names Council in its selection of members to the ICANN Board.
For references to the past procedures, see
Here are the arrangements:
A separate archive and mailing list will be created for the purpose of managing
elections going forward. This list will exclude Council members who are
candidates; but include (b) any liaisons from the ALAC or GAC to the GNSO
Council; and (c) the GNSO Secretariat; The list recipients and archiving
will be concluded at the end of the process (step 7 below).
Ballots will be sent out individually to each GNSO Council members' e-mail address.
Ballots should be filled out and returned to the e-mail address stated in the ballot. They should not be copied to any e-mail list.
Item 5(c) will allow each GNSO Council member to double-check that his or her ballot was properly understood, but will not allow others to determine how the member voted.
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