Re: [council] Terms of ICANN Board Directors

[marilynscade@xxxxxxxxxxx]

Thanks, Bruce. I appreciate your post.
I was reading same sections.
Good to have the facts abt the Board of ICANN.

I wld suggest that the consistency of # of yrs one can serve re board cld be a 
guidepost when discussing the topic within constituencies and in the overall 
GNSO review. It wld be ironic that a bd holds someone to a standard they cannot 
support for themselves. We are after all needing to inform ourselves before 
making decisions affecting broad governance issues re constituencies. 

Best regards
Marilyn Cade

Regards,
Marilyn Cade
  

-----Original Message-----
From: "Bruce Tonkin" <Bruce.Tonkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 16:58:59 
To:"GNSO Council" <council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [council] Terms of ICANN Board Directors

Hello Marilyn,


> However I am not clear what the Board term limits are. I'll 
> look that up as a point of information

The Board term limits are set out in (
http://www.icann.org/general/bylaws.htm#VI) :

Article VI, Section 8 (5):

"5. Subject to the provisions of the Transition Article of these Bylaws,
no Director may serve more than three consecutive terms. For these
purposes, a person selected to fill a vacancy in a term shall not be
deemed to have served that term."

A Director is normally appointed for a 3 year term, so this would mean a
total of 9 years is possible.

Regards,
Bruce Tonkin