Call for Nominations for ICANN Board of Director

[Ray Plzak]

The Address Support Organization (ASO) Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)
between the Regional Internet Registries and ICANN provides as follows:

"(3) ICANN Directors.
	(c) No more than 1 ASO-appointed Director may come from the same geographic
region, as defined in the ICANN by-laws."

The ASO has made a call for nominations for the ICANN Board of Directors
member from the ARIN region to replace Mr. Ken Fockler whose term expires
October 1, 2001:

	url: http://www.icann.org/announcements/icann-pr03jan01.htm.

To date there has been only one nominee from the ARIN region.  It is
important we have a slate of candidates from the ARIN region for this
important position.  In order to add at least one other ARIN region
candidate to the list of candidates the ARIN Board of Trustees intends to
nominate one or more individuals as the ARIN RIR candidate(s).  This is
provided for in the ASO MOU paragraph (3)(b):

"(3) ICANN Directors.

(b) ... each RIR signatory to the MOU is entitled to nominate candidates by
procedures of its own choosing."

The ARIN NOMCOM will receive nominations and determine a list of qualified
candidates.  The ARIN Board of Trustees will then choose one or more
candidates by majority vote and forward the selected individual(s) as the
ARIN RIR candidate(s)for the ICANN Board of Directors.

The timeline for this process is as follows:

Any ARIN member or any other interested party forwards a nominee to the
following address: memsvcs at arin.net.  Self-nominations are permitted.  All
nominations must be submitted prior to MIDNIGHT, February 23, 2001.

The ARIN Board of Trustees will convene to select the ARIN RIR nominee(s).

The ARIN Board of Trustees will forward the nomination(s) to the ASO
Secretariat no later than March 2, 2001.

Any ARIN member or interested party may also submit a nomination to the ASO
Secretariat following the procedures at:

	url: http://www.icann.org/announcements/icann-pr03jan01.htm.

I urge you to actively consider and propose candidates by following either
of the procedures.


Ray Plzak
President
American Registry for Internet Numbers