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Membership Advisory Committee Progress Report, January 3, 1999


 
 
ICANN MAC PROGRESS REPORT
3 January, 1999
Prepared by Greg Crew, Diane Cabell, and Molly Shaffer Van Houweling

This is a January 3 status report on the work of the Membership Advisory Committee (MAC).  The primary task of the MAC is to provide the ICANN Board with a number of possible membership structures suitable for the election of At Large directors in accordance with the ICANN By-laws, which the Committee hopes to present to the ICANN Board during the ICANN Board meeting in Singapore the first week of March, 1999.

The committee was appointed on December 16, 1998, and began to discuss its goals, agenda, and working methods via email and teleconference.  The committee decided that committee members would prepare periodic reports, such as this one, about the progress of its work.

The committee hopes to engage in a constructive public discussion about membership issues.  To this end, the committee will establish a public email discussion list, which will be launched during the week of January 4, 1999.  The committee is in the process of discussing what guidelines for list participation should be established.  Contributions will be archived in the MAC section of the ICANN web site (http://www.icann.org/membership-com.html), and the MAC progress reports will include summaries of the email discussion.

In preparation for its substantive discussion the MAC has started brainstorming about membership issues that may need to be resolved.  To date, this list includes the following issues:
 

PURPOSE

MEMBERS

MECHANICS

RELATIONSHIPS

FEES

AT LARGE DIRECTORS

ELECTING AT LARGE DIRECTORS

CHANGES TO ARTICLES

COSTS

The committee is looking forward to adding to this list with the input of interested members of the public, and to starting to develop alternative ways to resolve these and other issues.
 
 

 

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