Dear ccTLD Adminstrators:

You have received this mail because you are listed as the Admistrative Contact for a ccTLD registry in the IANA database and therefore have a vote in forthcoming elections to appoint ccTLD representatives to the Names Council of the Domain Name Support Organisation.
This list will only be used for announcements concerning the elections and voting procedures and is not a discussion list. To respect those who do not wish to become too involved ion the debate, comments on this or any other issues relating to ccTLDs should be posted to wwtld@ripe.net .
On this basis I hope you are able to remain subscribed to this election list and use your vote(see below). If you represent more than one constituency, you will have received even more versions for which I apologise but as each registry gets an electronic vote and the traffic will be low, I hope you can accept this situation until a more streamlined method is found.
If you ar also on the wwTLD list, I again apologise for the duplication but it is essential to reach all who are entitled to vote.

ELECTION NOTICE

The ccTLD Constituency of the DNSO (Domain Name Supporting Organization) of the ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) will be voting to elect its 3 members to the Names Council of the DNSO. The vote will be made using a Single Transferable Vote method.

The election will be held according to the following schedule:

July 1 - Official notification that an election will take place by sending and email to the wwTLD list and to the adminstrative contacts ccTLDs as determined by an updated list to be supplied by Josh Elliot of the IANA.
(This message.) Forgive duplications but it is important that we reach all admin contacts who are the electorate and a separate list is being made from that of wwtld.

July 11 - Nominations are open.

July 25 - The "campaign." Candidates make their statements and try to convince members to vote for them

August 8 - Balloting begins

August 15 - Balloting ends, votes are counted, and winners are appointed.

For continuing updates and more information, please see:
http://www.wwtld.org/elections.html

Fay Howard,
(on behalf of the Interim Names Council Representatives of the cctld Constituency)