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On 15 December 2003 a Call for Nominations was published for candidates for election to the Board of Trustees of the 2004 Internet Society (ISOC) Elections. The web reference page for this process is available here.

This year two Trustees will be elected by the ISOC Organizational Members and one by the ISOC Chapters. In addition to this, one Trustee will be selected by the Internet Architecture Board.

The Nominations Committee received 25 nominations.

Nominees were asked to confirm their willingness to serve and if so, to provide the Nominations Committee with the information needed for the evaluation of the nominees against the selection guidelines as published in the call.

The committee selected an initial slate of 4 candidates to be placed on the ballot for the elections in the Organizational membership constituency and 3 candidates for the elections in the Chapters constituency. The results of the committee's work were posted on the ISOC web site and were also disseminated individually to members on January 24, 2004.

The announcement of the initial slate also invited additional nominations by petition request for candidates for the 2004 Organizational Members and Chapters Trustee Elections. A one month petition period opened on that date for individuals to petition their constituencies to be placed on the respective
ballots.

In order to be valid, petitions and signatures in support of petitions must have been received by For a petition to be successful, a candidate in the Organizational Members constituency needed the support of 8 valid signatures and a candidate in the Chapters constituency needed 6 valid signatures.

Two modifications were made to the above conditions. First, the number of signatures required to validate a request to organizational members was reduced from 8 to 7. The original figure of 8 was based upon having more voting organizational members than actually were present on December 31, 2003. The
number was not known at the time of the committee's first report, and the previous year's threshold was used as a proxy.

Second, the deadline for petition signatures was delayed by 24 hours, to Tuesday, 24 February 2004 at 23h59 GMT -0500. All of the petition requests, thre in number, were submitted late in the petition request period. The notification of the first set of petitions was duly e-mailed to organization
member representatives, but because of an overload in the ISOC mail systems, there was a 16-18 hour delay in their being sent. This resulted in most if not all messages in the group being delivered after normal close of business
on a Friday night. The committee felt that this delay unfairly disadvantaged the petitioners, and decided to postpone the petition submission and signature deadline for 24 hours to compensate for the notification delay.

Three petitions were received to be included in the organizational membership election. Two of these petitions, those of Larry Roberts and of Stephen Squires, received more than the number of signatures required, and are included
in the final ballot. In both cases, the number of signatures obtained met the condition of the original, and higher threshold mentioned above.

One petition, that of Olle Viktorsson, did not obtain the number of signatures required to be placed on the ballot. The number of signatures obtained was lower than the revised, and lower threshold mentioned above.

No petition requests were received to be included in the Chapter Membership election ballot.

As a result of the completion of the petition process, the final candidates to be included in the ballot for the Organizational Membership Elections are, in alphabetical order, as follows:

• Farouk Kamoun, Tunisia
• Larry Landweber, USA
• Desiree Miloshevic, Serbia/U.K.
• Richard Perlman, USA
• Larry Roberts, USA
• Stephen Squires, USA

The final candidates to be included in the ballot for the Chapter Membership Elections remain, in alphabetical order, as follows:

• Alan Greenberg, Canada
• Dorothy Okello, Uganda
• Patrick Vande Walle, Luxembourg

Here are biography and statement for each candidate

Respectfully submitted,

The 2004 ISOC Nominations Committee

Chair:
George Sadowsky, Global Internet Policy Initiative, USA

Members:
Lamia Chaffai, Agence Tunisienne de l'Internet, Tunisia
Marie-Anne Delahaut, Institut Jules-Destr»e, Belgium
Osten Franberg, ex-Ericsson, Sweden
Nancy Hafkin, ex-UN Economic Commission for Africa, USA
Pindar Wong, Asia & Pacific Internet Association, Hong Kong
Raul Zambrano, UNDP ICT Practice Group, Colombia