[WP1] Caretaker Board - presentation from counsel
Jordan Carter
jordan at internetnz.net.nz
Sat Jul 18 05:47:24 UTC 2015
Sam, these are good questions to raise.
There's no way to mitigate the first concern in a process sense that I can
think of.
I agree with your second point.
On the third, important implementation detail to pursue... in part it
depends on how long the caretaker is in office.
cheers
Jordan
On 17 July 2015 at 09:14, Samantha Eisner <Samantha.Eisner at icann.org> wrote:
> Thanks Jordan. There are a couple of concerns that I think that we need
> to keep in mind, in line with the concerns identified in the memo.
>
> First, it seems to me that there would be a real possibility that a
> significant number of Board members could elect resign upon the triggering
> of the Board recall process, not even waiting around for the vote. We’d
> then be in a position that we’d have a significantly reduced Board
> membership without a triggering event to get to the proposed interim board
> measures.
>
> Second, and following from that idea, reliance on Option 1 is probably
> not a viable option, as we cannot force board members to stay around on
> even an interim position.
>
> Third, there are requirements in the ICANN Bylaws on the composition of
> the Board of Directors. The further we go down the path to trying to
> design an interim Board, the more we need to consider if this is creating a
> separate Bylaws defining the interim Board, such as differing diversity
> requirements for an interim Board, concerns of whether compensation would
> be made available to interim directors, what measures could/would exist
> allowing the unseated Board members to be re-seated to the Board, etc.
>
>
> From: <wp1-bounces at icann.org> on behalf of Jordan Carter <
> jordan at internetnz.net.nz>
> Date: Friday, July 17, 2015 at 8:58 AM
> To: "wp1 at icann.org" <wp1 at icann.org>
> Subject: [WP1] Caretaker Board - presentation from counsel
>
> Hi all
>
> I've just realised I got the below / attached last night, but just saw
> it.
>
> Please review. It seems to me this does demonstrate a number of viable
> options for the caretaker board concept.
>
> best
> Jordan
>
>
>
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