- Category: ICANN Structures
- Topic: GNSO Review, GNSO Council, Constituency representatives
- Board meeting date: 15 January 2004
- Resolution number: 04.02
- URL for Board minutes/resolution: http://www.icann.org/en/minutes/prelim-report-15jan04.htm
- Status: Completed
Summary
Board determines that the number of GNSO Council representatives that each official GNSO Constituency may appoint to the GNSO Council should remain at three (3) appointed by each Constituency until the 2004 Annual Meeting.
Text
After discussion, the Board of Directors, passed the following resolution unanimously by a 10-0 vote:
Whereas, On 31 October 2003 (see - http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/advisory-31oct03.htm), the ICANN Board at its public meeting in Tunis, Tunisia, discussed and resolved to effect certain amendments to the ICANN Bylaws as requested by the Generic Names Supporting Organization ("GNSO"). These amendments will result in the number of GNSO Council representatives that each official GNSO Constituency may appoint remain at three (3) appointed by each Constituency following the 2003 Annual Meeting, until the 2004 Annual Meeting. Following the 2004 Annual Meeting, the number of GNSO Council representatives that each GNSO Constituency may appoint shall decrease to two (2).
Whereas, a notice regarding this proposal was prepared and posted, and the General Counsel invited comments from the community on the proposal;
Whereas, no comments on the proposal have been received, and the Board concludes that adoption of the amendments to the bylaws as stated in the proposal would be in the best interest of ICANN;
Resolved [04.02] that the amendments to Article X, Section 3, and Article XX, Section 5 of the Bylaws are hereby adopted as proposed.
Implementation Actions
- None
Other Related Resolutions
- Board decided to change the transition article (Article XX) to allow three representatives per constituency on the GNSO Council until the end of the ICANN annual meeting 2004 on 31 October 2003 Resolution 03.164 at: http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/advisory-31oct03.htm.
- Board decided to extend the current arrangement of three representatives per constituency until the ICANN meeting in Mar del Plata, Argentina in April 2005 on 5 December 2004 Resolution 04.105 at: http://www.icann.org/en/minutes/capetown-resolutions-1-05dec04.htm.
- Board approved the Bylaws which specify three representatives per constituency on 8 April 2005 Resolution 5.20 at: http://www.icann.org/en/minutes/minutes-08apr05.htm.
Additional Information
- See Public Notice Forum at: http://www.icann.org/en/legal/proposed-bylaws-corrections-09jan04.htm.
- Bylaws approved on 8 April 2005 can be found at: http://www.icann.org/en/general/archive-bylaws/bylaws-08apr05.htm.
- Current version of the Bylaws can be found at: http://www.icann.org/en/general/bylaws.htm.
- The resolution does not address funding for the items identified therein.
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