ICANN Releases Draft Bylaw Revisions for Public Comment
ICANN released a final draft version of the nonprofit corporation’s revised bylaws Thursday for public comment. ICANN’s lawyers began revising the bylaws in March to comply with the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority transition plan and a set of recommended changes…
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to the nonprofit’s accountability mechanisms, both of which the ICANN board approved in March (see 1603100070). ICANN stakeholders told us this month an early draft of the revised bylaws largely track with provisions in both the IANA transition plan and the accountability recommendations from the Cross Community Working Group on Enhancing ICANN Accountability (see 1604060063). ICANN’s lawyers also said the draft bylaws “are consistent with the community proposals” on the IANA transition, ICANN said in a notice. Comments on the draft bylaws are due May 21, which “allows for comments to be analyzed and incorporated” in time for the ICANN board to vote on the revised bylaws May 27, ICANN said. “NTIA has stated that it needs to see that changes to [ICANN’s bylaws] have been adopted sufficient to implement the [IANA transition plan] before NTIA can complete its review” of those plans.