Welcome one, welcome all!

Posting again the RP related reminder…hello, my name is Ariel Liang and I am the Remote Participation Manager for this session.For this session, we are using a Zoom webinar room. All councilors have been promoted to panelists and can activate microphones and participate in the chat as they can in other Council meetings. Councilors, please remember to set your chat to “All Panelists and Attendees” in order to ensure that everyone can read the exchanges. 

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Sorry for being late. Had some technical issues

Welcome Maarten!

Please remember to set your chat to All Panelists and Attendees for all to be able read the exchanges

Welcome everyone!

Welcome all

Thank you all. I look forward to working with you all

Welcome to all!

gracias Osvaldo

You're brilliant! :)

Welcome all, so much looking forward to working with you all

I usually say "forget the u's and the t"

Philippe, the most mind boggling thing about learning French is that half of the letters have to be forgotten :-)!

also I wonder if we gather to have a group photo at all

Very true, Tatiana. Quite confusing I'm sure.

even for us....

hahahah group photo

@Maxim - that is what Photoshop is for :)

zoom group photo

it is a screenshot , not a real photo :)

Welcome and congratulations to Kurt, Kristian, Mark, Stephanie, Wisdom, Tomslin, Olga, Jeff…and Juan, who has been with us for some time already. On behalf of staff, we very much look forward to working with you all!

I don't get to vote, but I think we have an excellent slate for the leadership team

Meetings in French would be good with me; Russian maybe not so much unless Tanya gives lessons... ;-)

Thanks so much Steve!

Aha, Marie says it in a French way <3

J'ai bien suvi Sebastien...

*suivi

Marie, and by the way I doubt I can speak Russian well anymore after so many years of not using it :-(

Probably still rather better than I (ever) could Tanya ;-)

You had us worried for a minute Phillippe!

:D

+1

Philippe I thought you forgot how to say your name! :D

FELICITATIONS!!!

Thanks everyone

Congrats Phillippe!

Congrats!!!!!!

Mazel Tov

Congrats

Congrats !

Félicitations Philippe!

Congrats!

Congratulations Philippe!

Congratulations Philippe!

and "none of the above" was easier to say for us non-French speakers

Congratulations Philippe!

and congratulations with the pronounciation!

félicitations pour votre nouveau poste!

congrats Philip!!!

proficiat!

Congratulations!

congratulations Philippe

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Congrats ladies!

congrats Pam and Tatiana!!

Congrats Vice Chairs

Congrats also for Tanya!

Me delighted too! Thanks Philippe

congrats!

And thanks all

congrats!

Congratulations Pam and Tatiana!

Congratulations again Pam and Tanya!

Thank you all!

Congratulations Pam and Tatiana

Congrats to Pam and Tanya and many thanks for taking on this work!

congratulations Pam and Tatiana

Thank you all! Hope it’s going to be a great year of great work for all of us!

we will understand the load better after the nov 2020 series of Councillors meetings

we hope to have some face to face meetings very soon!

What does the distinction “interim” mean? When does interim become not interim?

You have it covered Philippe

hand up from Pam

That is correct Pam

And the procedure is here: https://gnso.icann.org/sites/default/files/file/field-file-attach/process-criteria-gnso-representative-empowered-community-administration-28jun17-en.pdf

Ariel, could you scroll the text a bit

thanks

We have a wrap-up session tomorrow

Correct @ pam: 10:30 - 12:00 UTC (12:30 - 14:00 CEST)

For context, the Bylaws require that all representatives of each of the Decisional Participants to the Empowered Community Administration be certified annually in writing by that Participant. The interim representative from the GNSO will therefore serve until the GNSO has had the opportunity to perform its appointment process for the next annual term.

Does ICANN recognise Docusign in that procedure?

Nice to work with you again Kristian

@Maxim, the Bylaws don’t require a specific format or method; only that each Decisional Participant provide that certification in writing. Customarily and typically, correspondence demonstrating that a decision was taken transparently is sufficient.

@Mary, thanks for the clarification

Ghana! Accra was my last trip before COVID madness and I remember this trip so fondly.

I remember the ICANN meeting in Accra, Ghana in 2001 or 2002.

We have a terrific painting in our home purchased during the Accra meeting

Jeffrey, I went to the hotel where you guys had a meeting in 2002 — we had a dinner and a drink on the beach there

I went via Accra to get to the Ashanti region (not for ICANN ;-). +100 on it being a beautiful country.

I remember staying at a hotel down the road from the venue. It was just after a bunch of really bad rain storms where many of the houses were destroyed, so they were still recovering. But I enjoyed my time there and hope to get back there some day.

thanks Olga

Thank you, Olga

Thanks Olga! Looking forward to working with you :-) yay

So glad to have you here, Olga. :)

Indeed, great to have such a diverse group of people!

Muchas gracias Olga, me alegro que estés en el Consejo.

thanks all!!

Is there anyone who doesn’t know Jeff?

very happy to be in the council with old and new friends!!

I do know Jeff but I managed to call him Jeffrey on the chat here! :-)

Jeff and myself were GNSO in 2007-2011 😀

@Tatiana - No worries. I get called both :)

I look forward to serving for another 12 months with you all as the ALAC's Liaison to the GNSO Council

Hand up

Thanks Cheryl. Glad to hear that you were confirmed

Good to know you will be around for another 12 months, Cheryl.

take many screenshots

I love Maxim's pose

Maybe you should have said Fromage :)

Nice to see all of your smiling faces!

Sorry, I don't have a camera on this rig!

Great seeing you all

Bye!

Thank you all. See you tomorrow

Good night all

Thank you and bye all!

Thank you all. Bye all

Thanks and congrats to ALL

thx