<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;" class="">Dear Colleagues,</span><div class=""><font face="Monaco" class=""><span style="font-size: 11px;" class=""><br class=""></span></font><div class=""><span style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;" class="">On behalf of the 2020-2021 Nominations Committee, I am pleased to announce the final slates of candidates for the Internet Society Board of Trustees elections.</span><br style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;" class=""><br style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;" class="">Chapters Election</span><br style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;" class=""><br style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;" class="">As announced to this community on March 1, we received the required number of signatures in support of Glenn McKnight's petition to stand as a candidate in the Chapters election. No other petitions were filed for the Chapters election. Therefore, the final slate for the Chapters Election is as follows:</span><br style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;" class=""><br style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;" class="">- Leiska Evanson</span><br style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;" class="">- Luis Martinez</span><br style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;" class="">- Glenn Carl McKnight</span><br style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;" class="">- Rao Naveed Bin Rais</span><br style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;" class="">- Muhammad Shabbir</span><br style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;" class="">- Niels ten Oever</span><br style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;" class=""><br style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;" class="">Chapter voters will elect one trustee in the 2021 election.</span><br style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;" class=""><br style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;" class="">Separately, the Board, acting pursuant to its authority under Article II, Section 1(d), has announced its intention to offer the runner-up in the Chapters Election a one-year appointment as trustee. This will restore the board to its usual complement of 12 voting members comprised of equal numbers from all three communities: Chapters, Organizational Members and the IETF. The number of voting members fell to 11 when Olga Cavalli resigned with one year remaining in her term.</span><br style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;" class=""><br style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;" class="">Organizational Members Election</span><br style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;" class=""><br style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;" class="">There were no successful petitions in the Organizational Members election, so the slate remains the same as previously announced.</span><br style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;" class=""><br style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;" class="">- Paul Ebersman</span><br style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;" class="">- Robert Pepper</span><br style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;" class="">- Wei Wang</span><br style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;" class="">- Heather West</span><br style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;" class=""><br style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;" class="">Organizational Member voters will elect two trustees in the 2021 election.</span><br style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;" class=""><br style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;" class="">As previously announced, one of the two Organizational Member seats will include the usual three-year term of office. The other seat will include a one-year term. The candidate who receives the highest weighted vote count will be elected for the full three-year term, and the runner up will be elected for the one-year term.</span><br style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;" class=""><br style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;" class="">Biographical information on the candidates is available here:</span><br style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;" class=""><a href="https://www.internetsociety.org/board-of-trustees/elections/2021/nominees/" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;" class="">https://www.internetsociety.org/board-of-trustees/elections/2021/nominees/</a><br style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;" class=""><br style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;" class="">Per the published Elections Timetable, the Candidate Forum will open on March 26, and voting will be open from April 9 until April 23 at 15:00 UTC. As a reminder, only the voting delegate of each Chapter is issued an e-ballot, and only for the Chapters Election. If you do not know who the voting delegate for your Chapter is, do not hesitate to contact Christine Saegesser Baethge, ISOC Senior Director, Chapters and Individual Members (</span><a href="mailto:saegesser@isoc.org" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;" class="">saegesser@isoc.org</a><span style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;" class="">).</span><br style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;" class=""><br style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;" class="">This announcement concludes the work of the ISOC Nominations Committee. As chair of the committee, I want to thank colleagues who joined me as members for their hard work and commitment.</span><br style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;" class=""><br style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;" class="">The Committee thanks all of the nominees who expressed interest and willingness to serve on the Internet Society Board of Trustees.</span><br style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;" class=""><br style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;" class="">Best regards,</span></div><div class=""><br style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;" class="">George Sadowsky</span><br style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;" class="">2020-2021 Nominations Committee Chair</span><br style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 11px;" class="">Internet Society</span></div></div></body></html>