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 -- Alan Levin Tel: +27 21 409-7997