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Re: [council] Annual Meeting now Tunisia?


Bruce,

I support your move here. As you point out, the deadline is not the Annual Meeting, but October 1. Making Carthage the Annual Meeting changes nothing in this regard.

I would also suggest that you should notify ICANN Board, and GC that:

* Constituencies are in the process of running the elections, but that the October 1st meeting will not be met (and therefore, explore with GC the possibility to extend as provisional the current Council until the arrival of new members).

* that the Council's consensus position is to ask for an amendment of the Bylaws so as to have 3 reps from constituency, and that this will be submitted for Board consideration during the Annual Meeting (and ask to publish such proposal for amendemnt accoridng to ICANN's procedures, as this is clearly more than a simple technical amendment; if not done so, no action could be taken in Carthage, I am afraid).

* State that the uncertainty on the number of reps make the shceduled elections somehow problematic. As a last ressource, the Council could ask the Board to immediately amend Article XX, section 5, clause 8 so as to read "December 1" (ie, a month after Carthage, where a final decison on amending or not the bylaws regarding the issue of seats should be taken). This is a "minor" amendment, implying no policy or structural change and could therefgore be adopted by the Board on a telconf without prior public consultation, IMHO.

In the meanwhile, consitunceies should follow your wise advice to start the nomination/election process (2+1 "in the fridge") ASAP.

Amadeu, who is btw much more interested in the wildcard issue...






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