<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear Colleagues,<br><br>The Nominations Committee has announced the slate for the 2009 ISOC Board of<br>Trustees elections and has opened the period for nominations by petition. <br><br>To view the announcement on the website, please go to:<div><br><a href="http://www.isoc.org/isoc/general/trustees/elections/2009/nomcommreport090209">http://www.isoc.org/isoc/general/trustees/elections/2009/nomcommreport090209</a>.shtml<div>(or <a href="http://tinyurl.com/czhf7f)">http://tinyurl.com/czhf7f)</a></div><div><br></div><div>Petition procedures are outlined below. <br><br>This year, two Trustees will be elected by ISOC Organizational Members and<br>one by ISOC Chapters for 3-year terms that start June 2009 and expire June<br>2012. <br><br>The selected candidates for the Chapters Election are:<br><br>Khaled Koubaa, Tunisia<br>Narelle Clark, Australia<br><br>The selected candidates for Organisational Membership Election are:<br><br>Jonathan Zittrain, United States<br>Allen Miller, United States<br>Phillip Smith, Australia<br>David Appasamy, India<br>Guanghao Li, China<br><br>Petitions to add candidates to the 2009 ballot must be filed with the Chair<br>of the Nominations Committee at <<a href="mailto:2009-petition-request@isoc.org">2009-petition-request@isoc.org</a>>. <br><br>Separate petition mailboxes will be created for each valid petition request<br>that is received.<br><br>The petition request should include:<br><br>1. A statement whether the candidate wants to run for the Organisational<br>Members Election or the Chapters Election, including a statement that the<br>candidate will be able to devote an appropriate level of time to serve on<br>the ISOC Board of Trustees.<br><br>2. A short statement of what the petition candidate believes he or she would<br>contribute as a Trustee of the Internet Society. All petition candidates<br>will be listed in periodic announcements to participating Chapters and<br>Organisational Members via electronic mail and will be posted on the ISOC<br>web site.<br><br>Signatures in support of a petition shall be filed electronically and must<br>be received by 23:59 UTC on the night of March 11. For the purposes of this<br>policy, a "signature" shall be an email expressing support for the<br>candidate's petition sent by the Election Representative of a Chapter or<br>Organisational Member that is eligible to participate in this election, and<br>is subject to ISOC verification. The message should include the<br>Organisational Member's or Chapter's name and the name of the candidate<br>whose petition is supported.<br><br>Each signature must come directly from the Election Representative via email<br>to an address designated by the ISOC staff. The Election Representative must<br>send a separately e-mailed signature for each candidate he or she wishes to<br>support to the candidate's individual petition mailbox as designated by<br>ISOC. Each petitioner shall be provided with copies of all signature e-mails<br>for his or her candidacy and periodic reports about his or her status in<br>obtaining signatures. Announcements regarding successful petitions shall be<br>made as soon as practical, and need not await the end of the petition<br>period.<br><br>Participating Organisational Members or Chapters can sign petitions for<br>candidates running within their own constituency only. A Participating<br>Organisational Member or Chapter may sign more than one petition.<br><br>For a petition to be successful a candidate in the Organisational Members<br>constituency needs the support of 6 valid signatures and a candidate in the<br>Chapters constituency needs 6 valid signatures.<br><br>Successful petitioners will be placed on the ballot. The final candidate<br>announcement will be made no later than March 12.<br><br>Sincerely,<br><br>Anne</div><div>[Sent on behalf of the Nominations Committee]<br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><div>---------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div>Anne Lord, Senior Manager <<a href="mailto:lord@isoc.org">lord@isoc.org</a>></div><div>Chapter & Individual Memberships <a href="http://www.isoc.org">http://www.isoc.org</a></div><div>Internet Society (ISOC) "The Internet is for everyone"</div><div>---------------------------------------------------------------------</div></div><div><br></div></div><br></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></div></div></body></html>