[AFRI-Discuss] Question about elections for 2008

[Alan Levin]

Hi Nick,

On 29 Feb 2008, at 11:33 AM, Nick Ashton-Hart wrote:
> Please see http://www.icann.org/general/bylaws.htm#XI
> Look under Article XI,S2(4)(c), reproduced below for ease of reading

This is brilliant, many thanks.

Relating to the other question I asked, I see that the new events  
section of the website is not entirely user friendly. It's a great  
widget. The content is a little unspecific and I'm interested to see  
meetings labeled in accordance with the bylaws (i.e. the meetings  
that are the official 'annual meeting' as defined.  The bylaws say:

Section 13. ANNUAL MEETINGS
Annual meetings of ICANN shall be held for the purpose of electing  
Officers and for the transaction of such other business as may come  
before the meeting. Each annual meeting for ICANN shall be held at  
the principal office of ICANN, or any other appropriate place of the  
Board's time and choosing, provided such annual meeting is held  
within 14 months of the immediately preceding annual meeting. If the  
Board determines that it is practical, the annual meeting should be  
distributed in real-time and archived video and audio formats on the  
Internet.

Since the events web page never highlights which is an annual  
meeting, it's a confusing bylaw. The way the bylaw is currently  
worded also means that every time the board agrees to the location of  
the end of year meeting they also have to recognise that the location  
is not at the principal office of ICANN. Hopefully they have  
remembered to include this as part of the resolution when they agree  
on the location of the African meeting at the end of the end of the  
year (which as I understand is the annual meeting).

You may want to ask the webmaster to add (annual meeting) into the  
events pages so as to make things more easy to understand.

thanks,

Alan






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