Board of Directors

0) An initial Board of Directors shall consist of: Vesselin Bontchev, Dmitry Gryaznov, Mikko Hypponen, Jakub Kaminski, Eugene Kaspersky, Jimmy Kuo, Igor Muttik, Kurt Natvig, Fridrik Skulason, Peter Szor, and Righard Zwienenberg.

1) Additions to the Board of Directors shall be inducted only if there are no disapprovals from the existing Board.

2) Removals from the Board shall be effected by a two-thirds (2/3) majority of the votes cast by the Board members.

2a) Board members may of course also resign.

3) This Board and the Lists shall be disbanded if the Board membership falls below five (5), or by majority of votes cast by the Board members for dissolution.

4) Admissions voting, when required, will occur the first through seventh of each month.

Participant Admission Rules

1) Participants are admitted if there is majority approval by the Board membership, and there are fewer than three (3) objections from Board members, and those dissenting are not all representatives of the same company.

Participant Removal Rules

1) Participants are removed if any three (3) Board members, not all from the same company, requests that the participant be removed. This may happen during a regular voting period, or can happen in discussions within one week's time.

2) Participants are encouraged to resign if they no longer can contribute. [An earnest effort should ensue so that another participant can be found to represent those users formerly represented by the removed participant.]

Amendments

0) Amendments to these rules are approved by a two-thirds (2/3) majority of the votes cast by the Board members.

1) November 2, 2000: Nick FitzGerald and Costin Raiu added to the Board.

2) October 15, 2001: Peter Ferrie added to the Board.

3) December 26, 2001: Katrin Tocheva added to the Board.

4) March 18, 2003: Vesselin Bontchev resigns from the Board.