[icann-eu] Froomkin: Boardsquat (2)

[Thomas Roessler <roessler@does-not-exist.org>]

Michael Froomkin has a follow-up essay on the "board squatters",
which, I think, went mostly unnoticed on this list.  (It's linked
from icannwatch, though.)

http://personal.law.miami.edu/~froomkin/boardsquat2.htm

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		 Replacing the ICANN Board Squatters
		       By A. Michael Froomkin
	    Professor, University of Miami School of Law
			    Nov. 9, 2000

Suppose the ICANN Board Squatters resign, then what?  It's a very
fair question, especially as ICANN in its various public statements
has misleadingly framed the question as a false choice between the
Board Squatters and empty chairs.  The answer, I think, is to have
elections as soon as reasonably possible after a short period in
which voters are given a second chance to navigate the ICANN
registration gauntlet.  Since even with the best will in the world
that will take some time, in the interim we have no choice but to
follow the procedures in the ICANN by-laws, and have the ICANN Board
appoint four replacements.  Those replacements would serve only
until replaced by elected Board Members.  Admittedly, there are some
difficult questions about how the Board would select the temporary
directors, but these are surmountable.  The best interim solution
would be to have the five elected at-large directors propose four
names for the full Board's approval. 

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Thomas Roessler                         <roessler@does-not-exist.org>