RE: [gnso-dow123] Nomination for Chair

["Paul Stahura" <stahura@xxxxxxxx>]

I second Avri's nomination.

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From: owner-gnso-dow123@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-gnso-dow123@xxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Ross Rader
Sent: Sunday, April 16, 2006 7:06 PM
To: gnso-dow123@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: avri@xxxxxxx
Subject: [gnso-dow123] Nomination for Chair

With Jordyn's pending departure, I'd like to get the ball rolling on 
finding a replacement. I understand that we will be discussing process 
on the Tuesday call. In the meantime, I'd like to put officially forward

Avri Doria as a candidate. Avri recently joined council as a nominating 
committee appointee. She will shortly be joining this Task Force (is 
currently waiting for the "paperwork" to be processed) and I think she 
would make an excellent chair. Not only does Avri come with the benefit 
of being completely free of conflicts of interest, she is also free from

constituency ties which might otherwise cloud her judgement. While 
Jordyn has done an excellent job in this regard, it is extremely 
important that his replacement be at least as fair and neutral in their 
management of this important work.

I am not sure if Avri has been officially added to this mailing list 
yet, so I have included her in the cc: line of this message.

I have also reproduced her most recent statement of interest that she 
filed with the GNSO Council as follows:

Statement of Interest for Avri Doria
I am an independent research consultant and have no employment, 
contract, financial interest, share ownership or any other business 
relationship with ICANN, registries or registrars except as a holder, 
and fee payer, of several domain names in .com, .net and .org.

As part of my volunteer activities I have spoken to and given advise to 
various representatives of indigenous nomadic and semi-nomadic 
populations on the topic of obtaining an TLD.

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Thanks in advance for your consideration.

-r