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Proposed Corrections to Bylaws
23 September 2003


To the ICANN Board and the Community:

On 12 September 2003, the ICANN Board discussed and resolved to propose for comment certain non-substantive corrective revisions to the Bylaws, as last amended 26 June 2003. These revisions are designed to 1) allow additional flexibility in the timing and scheduling of ICANN’s annual meeting, and, in particular, to allow ICANN’s 2003 annual meeting to be held in Carthage, Tunisia, 27-31 October 2003 and 2) calculate certain time periods under the Bylaws in “business days” rather than “calendar days.”

The following revisions to the bylaws are proposed, to be considered for adoption at the Board's next meeting currently scheduled for 13 October 2003. Deleted text is shown in strikeout type; added text is underlined.

Please forward any comments on the following proposed revisions to <icann-secretary@icann.org> by no later than 10 October 2003.

Respectfully submitted,
ICANN Staff


ARTICLE III: TRANSPARENCY

Section 5. MINUTES AND PRELIMINARY REPORTS
1. [……….]
2. No later than five (5) business days after each meeting (as calculated by local time at the location of ICANN’s principal office), any actions taken by the Board shall be made publicly available in a preliminary report on the Website; provided, however, that any actions relating to personnel or employment matters, legal matters (to the extent the Board determines it is necessary or appropriate to protect the interests of ICANN), matters that ICANN is prohibited by law or contract from disclosing publicly, and other matters that the Board determines, by a three-quarters (3/4) vote of Directors present at the meeting and voting, are not appropriate for public distribution, shall not be included in the preliminary report made publicly available. For any matters that the Board determines not to disclose, the Board shall describe in general terms in the relevant preliminary report the reason for such nondisclosure.
3. No later than the day after the date on which they are formally approved by the Board (or, if such day is not a business day, as calculated by local time at the location of ICANN’s principal office, then the next immediately following business day), the minutes shall be made publicly available on the Website; provided, however, that any minutes relating to personnel or employment matters, legal matters (to the extent the Board determines it is necessary or appropriate to protect the interests of ICANN), matters that ICANN is prohibited by law or contract from disclosing publicly, and other matters that the Board determines, by a three-quarters (3/4) vote of Directors present at the meeting and voting, are not appropriate for public distribution, shall not be included in the minutes made publicly available. For any matters that the Board determines not to disclose, the Board shall describe in general terms in the relevant minutes the reason for such nondisclosure.

ARTICLE VI: BOARD OF DIRECTORS

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 shall be held during the fourth quarter of the calendary year. The annual meeting shall be held at the principal office of ICANN. The annual meeting shall be open to the public. 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.


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