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ICANN has published proposed corrections to the bylaws, to be considered by the board on 15 January 2004. These corrections change the number of council members per constituency back from two (as suggested by the reformed bylaws, but never implemented) to three (as favored by the majority of the council, and accepted by the board in Carthage) until the 2004 annual meeting.

It's worth noting that the change as drafted seems to need a correction: The terms suggested (2 reps until 2005, 1 rep until 2004, two-year terms from 2005) do not lead to the staggered terms for council members that are mentioned elsewhere in the bylaws -- unless there is another board decision that removes the 2004 sunset date on the three representative scheme.

Habeas attempts to fight spam with haikus: The theory is that whoever puts a habeas header into e-mail without having received a license gets sued by the corporation. Unfortunately, most of the spam that currently gets past my spam filter has the magical haiku -- and, even worse, is autolearned as "ham" by spamassassin.

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