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<font color="#E5E5E5">I'm here at</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> ICANN 62 in Panama City</font>

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<font color="#E5E5E5">we're in being joined by</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> members of</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font>

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2018<font color="#E5E5E5"> nominating committee or</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Nam Kham</font>

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so hey Jamil<font color="#CCCCCC"> Han spitter hoenn and</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> David</font>

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Ashcroft<font color="#CCCCCC"> gentleman</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> it's a pleasure to</font>

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<font color="#E5E5E5">see you</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> all again</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> so give</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> me an update</font>

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<font color="#E5E5E5">on the 2018 nam khan where does the work</font>

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<font color="#CCCCCC">of the committee</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> stand and how is it</font>

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<font color="#E5E5E5">work on so far well we're all of us at</font>

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the<font color="#E5E5E5"> end in the next two or</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> three days</font>

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and<font color="#E5E5E5"> what we did in this meeting in this</font>

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stage<font color="#E5E5E5"> and in panama has been to a final</font>

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selections<font color="#E5E5E5"> so we have</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> a final</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> slate for</font>

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the board<font color="#CCCCCC"> a final slate for the a lack</font>

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<font color="#CCCCCC">north america like Europe and also the</font>

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CC NSO and what we're<font color="#CCCCCC"> doing is trying to</font>

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<font color="#CCCCCC">basically find our</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> final selections for</font>

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those slots and<font color="#E5E5E5"> hopefully announce that</font>

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in a few weeks<font color="#E5E5E5"> afterwards</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> is</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> anything</font>

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you<font color="#E5E5E5"> want to highlight</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> about these years</font>

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and I'm<font color="#CCCCCC"> calm</font>

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well I'm glad you asked actually this

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<font color="#CCCCCC">year has been slightly different we have</font>

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spent our<font color="#E5E5E5"> first intersessional</font>

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<font color="#CCCCCC">face-to-face in actually</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> trying to</font>

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<font color="#E5E5E5">select candidates</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> it was an experiment</font>

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to see<font color="#CCCCCC"> how it would</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> go and actually went</font>

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really really well

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we found that both the combination<font color="#CCCCCC"> of</font>

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making sure that<font color="#CCCCCC"> we met face to face</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and</font>

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that<font color="#E5E5E5"> we</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> actually considered every single</font>

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<font color="#E5E5E5">application and so every everyone got a</font>

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fair shot<font color="#CCCCCC"> you know that it went really</font>

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really<font color="#E5E5E5"> well so</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I think that was one of</font>

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the main things plus the<font color="#E5E5E5"> amount of time</font>

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<font color="#CCCCCC">that we've taken to actually interview</font>

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and actually consider candidates as

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being probably<font color="#E5E5E5"> three times more</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> than</font>

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we've done<font color="#E5E5E5"> before</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> again that was an</font>

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<font color="#CCCCCC">experiment to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> see</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> how it would work</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and</font>

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actually<font color="#CCCCCC"> work pretty</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> well Damon</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> now that</font>

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your chair liked<font color="#E5E5E5"> does that mean you'll</font>

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be chair<font color="#E5E5E5"> next year can you gonna explain</font>

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<font color="#CCCCCC">how that's gonna work sure absolutely</font>

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<font color="#CCCCCC">the intent is that I would</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> be chair next</font>

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<font color="#E5E5E5">year however that final determination</font>

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will<font color="#CCCCCC"> be up to the board and what the</font>

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board<font color="#E5E5E5"> will do is they</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> will look at some</font>

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reviews that<font color="#CCCCCC"> are</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> that</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> are completed of</font>

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myself and<font color="#CCCCCC"> its ahed and hans-peter they</font>

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will consider<font color="#E5E5E5"> those reviews</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> then</font>

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they will make a final determination as

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to who the chair and chair electives for

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<font color="#E5E5E5">the 2019</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> NomCom so what's gonna</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> be your</font>

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focus<font color="#CCCCCC"> as a chair</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> after observing the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> on</font>

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<font color="#E5E5E5">become leadership team from the inside</font>

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<font color="#E5E5E5">well I think next year what I want to</font>

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focus on is<font color="#E5E5E5"> sort of building on</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the</font>

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<font color="#E5E5E5">strengths</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> that previous</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> stomp</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> comms have</font>

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including<font color="#E5E5E5"> this one and I</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> think</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the two</font>

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big<font color="#CCCCCC"> things that</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> I want to focus on next</font>

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<font color="#CCCCCC">year are going to be</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> continuing the</font>

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improvement of transparency of the

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NomCom<font color="#CCCCCC"> I think it's important that the</font>

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<font color="#CCCCCC">munity understands where we're at in our</font>

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process<font color="#E5E5E5"> what we're doing</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and what's</font>

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<font color="#E5E5E5">coming up next</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> that they have a good</font>

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<font color="#CCCCCC">understanding of as to what's going on</font>

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<font color="#E5E5E5">within the NomCom</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> second thing</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> is I</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> want</font>

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<font color="#CCCCCC">to continue</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> to build upon the</font>

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relationships between the NomCom<font color="#CCCCCC"> the</font>

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<font color="#CCCCCC">Board</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> of</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Directors and</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the other</font>

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supporting<font color="#E5E5E5"> organizations that we</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> fill</font>

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positions in I think<font color="#E5E5E5"> it's very important</font>

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that<font color="#E5E5E5"> the NomCom members have a really</font>

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good working<font color="#CCCCCC"> knowledge of</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> what's going</font>

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<font color="#E5E5E5">on within the board and in those</font>

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organizations<font color="#E5E5E5"> since we are appointing</font>

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members<font color="#E5E5E5"> to them</font>

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<font color="#E5E5E5">Hans</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> what kind of candidate qualities</font>

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were important<font color="#E5E5E5"> to this year's committee</font>

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as<font color="#E5E5E5"> its elected</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> as candidates well rather</font>

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<font color="#E5E5E5">than to go into</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the details on exactly</font>

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<font color="#CCCCCC">that</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> I can tell you</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> that</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the committee</font>

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has been<font color="#E5E5E5"> quite some</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> time in establishing</font>

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<font color="#CCCCCC">role description and criteria that they</font>

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will evaluate the candidates for and

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that<font color="#E5E5E5"> this has been published on</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> on</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font>

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<font color="#CCCCCC">website so taking all the input from</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font>

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board<font color="#CCCCCC"> advice from</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the supporting</font>

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<font color="#E5E5E5">organizations and so on and spending</font>

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<font color="#E5E5E5">quite a lot of time</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> preparing that</font>

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criteria<font color="#E5E5E5"> rather than just doing that as</font>

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everybody sees fit in the process it's

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<font color="#E5E5E5">been a really joint issue to bring the</font>

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community<font color="#E5E5E5"> committee to a common</font>

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<font color="#CCCCCC">understanding of what</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> they're looking</font>

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<font color="#CCCCCC">for</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and all that's public on the</font>

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<font color="#E5E5E5">websites you can go and look at all the</font>

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details<font color="#CCCCCC"> then well thanks again</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> for</font>

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<font color="#CCCCCC">taking some time to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> meet with</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> me</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and I</font>

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hope<font color="#E5E5E5"> the rest meeting goes great</font>