INTRODUCTION FOE THOSE NEW TO THE LIST
Most will be aware that elections will take place in August to find 3 ccTLD representatives to sit on the Names Council of ICANN's Domain Name Support Organisation. Each ccTLD registry gets one vote and this must be cast by the administrative contact as found in the Internic database.
(The admin contact information provided for some ccTLDs proved to be inaccurate but IANA have recently been updating the database which is why some of you are now on the list for the first time.) In the mean time, I have tried to ensure that a message got through to alert as many registries as possible of the elections.
This is a closed, low-traffic list to be used soley for election announcements and distribution of balloting information. Discussion and opinions should be sent to wwtld@ripe.net

More information about the world-wide ccTLD constituency and its Administrative Committee, the forthcoming elections and regional ccTLD groups can be found at:

http://www.wwtld.org/

ANNOUNCEMENT
I write to advise you that the period for accepting nominations has now closed and there are six candidates:

Nigel Roberts of the Guernsey registry .GG
(nominated by Clint Mole of .KY seconded by Peter de Blanc of .VI)

Dennis Jennings of the Irish registry .IE
(nominated by Stefano Trumpy of .IT seconded by NIC-AT Herbert Vitzthum)

Antony Van Couvering (IATLD)
(nominated by Peter de Blanc of .VI seconded by Bill Semich of .NU)

Patricio Poblete of the Chilean registry .CL
(nominated by Oscar Robles of .MX seconded by Oswaldo Aguirre of .VE)

Robert Hall of the Canadian registry
(nominated by Olle Thylander os .SE seconded by Stefano Trumpy of .IT)

Patrick O'Brien of the New Zealand Registry
(Nominated by Nigel Roberts of .GG and seconded by Adminstrator of .SG -Agnes Lee)

I shall be asking the candidates for short biographies and any statements they might wish to make regarding the elections and these will be published on the Web site in due course.
Balloting begins on 8 August and closes on 15 August 1999. Information on voting will follow shortly. and also be posted to the constituency Web pages:

http://www.wwtld.org/elections.html

Please take the opportunity to vote if you can, Our constituency is unique in that each ccTLD registry in the world gets the chance to elect representatives in an organisation that is making policy which may effect all registries.

On behalf of the Administrative Committee of the ccTLD Constituency

Regards

Fay Howard
CENTR General Manager &
Interim Names Council Representative