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Subject: [cctldcommunity] Call for nominations: ICANN Board seat 11
Date: 2025-07-01 12:11
 From: Joke Braeken <joke.braeken at icann.org>
To: "ccnso-members at icann.org" <ccnso-members at icann.org>, 
"ccTLDcommunity at cctld-managers.org" <ccTLDcommunity at cctld-managers.org>, 
ccnso-council <ccnso-council at icann.org>

  Call for nominations: ICANN Board seat 11

The current term of Patricio Poblete, the ccNSO-nominated Director for
ICANN Board Seat 11, will end at the ICANN87 Annual General Meeting
(October 2026).  The nomination period for this position will open on
Wednesday, 2 July 2025 at 00:01 UTC and close on Wednesday, 23 July 2025
at 23:59 UTC.

By ICANN87, Patricio will have served two consecutive terms and is
therefore eligible for reappointment, as the maximum allowed is three
consecutive terms.  In line with the ICANN Bylaws and ccNSO internal
procedures, the ccNSO Council must select a candidate by 17 April 2026 -
six months prior to ICANN87.

Voting will take place in November 2025, following the completion of due
diligence checks by an external professional firm. A Q&A session with
the candidate(s) will be held during ICANN84 (25–31 October 2025).

All relevant information about the nomination and secondment process, as
well as future announcements, will be posted here:
https://ccnso.icann.org/en/about/nominations.htm

  How to nominate and second a candidate

Timeline of the nomination and secondment procedure:

START: Wednesday, 2 July 2025 at 00:01 UTC

END: Wednesday, 23 July 2025 at 23:59 UTC

You are kindly invited to follow these instructions closely. If you have
questions, please contact the Nomination Process Manager, at ccNSO
Secretariat ccnsosecretariat at icann.org.

  	* Each ccNSO member may nominate one (1) person for a seat to be
filled on the ICANN Board. If a ccNSO member nominates a second or
further candidate, only the first nomination will be valid and published
as such.
	* Each ccNSO member can second one (1) or more persons for a seat to be
filled on the ICANN Board
	* Only ccTLD Managers who are a member of the ccNSO as of the
publication date of the call for nominations, i.e. on 1 July 2025, can
nominate or second a candidate
	* All nominations must be seconded by another ccNSO member

	* Nominations and secondments should be sent by e-mail to the
Nomination Process Manager at the following e-mail address:
ccnso-boardnominations at icann.org
To ensure adequate archiving, please do not use alternative email
addresses. A record of who has nominated and seconded the candidate(s)
is publicly available [1].

Templates for nominating and seconding nominations are provided below.
Alternative templates should not be used, and nominations or secondings
should be sent to ccNSO-boardnominations at icann.org only.

TEMPLATE | NOMINATION TO THE ICANN BOARD
(Please send to ccnso-boardnominations at icann.org )

Your full name:

Your email address:

Your ccTLD:

Full name of the person you nominate to the ICANN Board:

E-mail address of the person you nominate:

Country of citizenship or domicile of the person you nominate:

                 = = =

TEMPLATE | SECONDING A NOMINATION TO THE ICANN BOARD
(Please send to ccnso-boardnominations at icann.org )

Your full name:

Your e-mail address:

Your ccTLD:

Full name of the nominee you would like to second:

E-mail address of the nominee you would like to second:

Consult here [1]the archive for nominations and secondments.

  Requirements for suitably qualified candidates: citizenship or domicile

Bylaw Article 7 – Section 7.2 (c) [2] states:

_"(c) In carrying out their responsibilities to nominate Directors for
Seats 9 through 15 for designation by the EC, the Supporting
Organizations and the At-Large Community shall seek to ensure that the
Board is composed of Directors who, in the aggregate, display diversity
in geography, culture, skills, experience, and perspective, by applying
the criteria set forth in Section 7.3, Section 7.4 and Section 7.5. The
Supporting Organizations shall ensure that, at any given time, no two
Directors nominated by a Supporting Organization are citizens from the
same country or of countries located in the same Geographic Region. For
purposes of this Section 7.2(c), if any candidate for Director maintains
citizenship or Domicile of more than one country, that candidate may be
deemed to be from either country and must select in his or her Statement
of Interest the country of citizenship or Domicile that he or she wants
the Supporting Organization or the At-Large Community, as applicable, to
use for nomination purposes. For purposes of this Section 7.2(c), a
person can only have one Domicile, which shall be determined by where
the candidate has a permanent residence and place of habitation."_

Byron Holland, occupying Board Seat 12, has his domicile in Canada,
North American region.

  Requirements for suitably qualified candidates: employment by a ccTLD

As per 3.4 of the ccNSO Guideline: ccNSO Nominations process ICANN Board
seats 11 and 12 [3] :

_"Candidates are not required to be employed by a ccTLD Manager to be
eligible for nomination. Still, if there is an employment or other
relationship, the candidate should disclose it as part of their
Candidate Statement."_

  Accepting nominations and due diligence verifications

After closure of the nomination period, the Nomination Process Manager
will ascertain whether the nominee(s) formally accept their
nomination(s), and ask them to complete a nomination form. The deadline
to accept nominations is 31 July 2025 (23:59 UTC). By 1 August 2025
(23:59 UTC), the Nomination Process Manager shall provide a list with
the name(s) of the candidate(s) who have accepted their nomination.
Also, a record of who has nominated and seconded the candidate(s) [1] is
publicly available.

By acceptance of the nomination, a nominee warrants, is aware of, and
consents to:

  	* The Country of Citizenship or Domicile included in the nomination
form;
	* The additional qualifications as per ICANN Bylaws Section 7.4(a),
7.4(b), 7.4(c), 7.4(d)
	* Fully cooperate to undergo a due diligence screening by an external
provider, which includes providing necessary consent to ICANN to
transmit personal data to the due diligence provider.

Candidates need to be aware that they will be approached by the external
due diligence provider to sign a consent form before the actual due
diligence will begin. The scope of this background check is described
here [4]. In the event a candidate does not provide consent or rescinds
the consent to undergo the due diligence process, the Council will be
informed, and the candidacy of that person will be ended. After
completion of the due diligence process, the Chair of the ccNSO Council
will be informed of the outcome and inform the Council (with the
exception of potential candidate(s) who are Councillor), i.e., only
whether concerns have surfaced, which warrant further consideration and
decisions.

  Candidate Statements

The Nomination Process Manager will ask candidate(s) to provide a
written candidate statement. A Q&A session with the candidate(s) will be
held at ICANN84. The Q&A session gives the ccNSO members and broader
ccTLD community an opportunity to interact with the candidate(s). In
preparation of the Q&A session, the written candidate statements will be
posted on the ccNSO website.

  Elections

Bylaw Article 10 – Section 10.3 (i) [5] states:

_"(i) The ccNSO Council shall nominate individuals to fill Seats 11 and
12 on the Board by written ballot or by action at a meeting; any such
nomination must have affirmative votes of a majority of all the members
of the ccNSO Council then in office. Notification of the ccNSO Council's
nominations shall be given by the ccNSO Council Chair in writing to the
EC Administration, with a copy to the Secretary, and the EC shall
promptly act on it as provided in Section 7.25."_

Even if there is only one candidate that accepted nomination for ICANN
Board seat number 11, an election will be held, to allow the ccNSO
members to either cast their vote for the candidate, or to select the
option "none of the above". The ccNSO Council and ccNSO members have
agreed that the ccNSO members shall propose and elect candidates for the
two ICANN Board seats allocated to the ccNSO, and that the winner of
said election - i.e. the candidate that receives the majority of the
votes cast - shall in turn be nominated to the ICANN Board seat by a
majority vote of the ccNSO Council. The timeline for the elections is
posted in the links-section below: further instructions will be provided
by the Nomination Process Manager closer to the start of the elections,
in November 2025.

  Links

  	* Announcements on ccNSO website related to the ongoing nominations:
https://ccnso.icann.org/en/about/nominations.htm

	* Archive for nominations and secondments:
https://lists.icann.org/hyperkitty/list/ccnso-boardnominations@icann.org/
	* ICANN Bylaws:
https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/governance/bylaws-en
	* ccNSO Internal Rules:
https://ccnso.icann.org/sites/default/files/field-attached/internal-membership-rules-26oct22-en.pdf
	* ccNSO Guideline Board seat 11 and seat 12 nominations:
https://ccnso.icann.org/sites/default/files/field-attached/ccnso-nominations-icann-board-guideline-15dec22-en.pdf
	* Timeline as adopted by ccNSO Council during meeting 218:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bkmj0dmDAuO92Muek6lv4wNbgzujPHrtelFdX4YlQRY/edit?usp=sharing

Joke Braeken

joke.braeken at icann.org

Links:
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[1] 
https://lists.icann.org/hyperkitty/list/ccnso-boardnominations@icann.org/
[2] https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/governance/bylaws-en/#article7
[3] 
https://ccnso.icann.org/sites/default/files/field-attached/ccnso-nominations-icann-board-guideline-15dec22-en.pdf
[4] 
https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/proposed-uniform-board-integrity-screening-process-02mar18-en.pdf
[5] 
https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/governance/bylaws-en/#article10
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