Joe,
> ... how will ICANN's Interim [sic, thank you] board will be replaced by an
> [Initial] elected board?
...
> ICANN currently hopes (and expects) that all of the nine Directors
> elected by the Supporting Organizations will be in place before the
> first annual meeting of ICANN on November 2-4, 1999, in Los
> Angeles. If this in fact takes place, half of ICANN's Board at that
> time will consist of Directors elected by constituent bodies of
> ICANN. The other half of the elected Board, which represents the
> At Large Directors, is currently expected to be in place no later
> than (and hopefully before) the second annual meeting of ICANN,
> which will take place in the fall of 2000. Pursuant to the White
> Paper and the MOU, the transition process is scheduled to be
> completed no later than October 1, 2000, and the Initial Directors
> must all have ended their service by that time.
Art. V. Section 1 of the Bylaws states: "The initial Board of
Directors of the Corporation ("Initial Board") shall consist of nine At
Large members, the President (when appointed) and those
Directors that have been selected in accordance with these bylaws
by any Supporting Organization(s) that exists under Section 3(a) of
Article VI during the term of any of such At Large members. The
At Large members of the Initial Board shall serve until [*]September
30, 1999[*], unless by a two-thirds (2/3) vote of all the members of
the Board that term is extended for some or all of the At Large
members of the Initial Board for an additional period, to expire no
later than September 30, 2000."
Has this Section been amended, or is there reason to believe that
the Interim Board will in fact not have a mechanism in place by
Sepetember 99 by which the at-large membership can select new
representatives? Can you state that reason? If the Interim Board
could operate with only the present at-large appointees and without
members from the SOs for 6 months, is there reason why it could
not operate at that time with only the 9 SO members and not the
present at-large members?
kerry
