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- Network Working Group ISOC Board of Trustees
- Request for Comments: 2134 ISOC
- Category: Informational April 1997
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- ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
- OF
- INTERNET SOCIETY
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- Status of this Memo
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- This memo provides information for the Internet community. This memo
- does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of
- this memo is unlimited.
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- Abstract
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- These are the articles of incorporation of the Internet Society.
- They are published for the information of the IETF community at the
- request of the poisson working group.
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- 1. ISOC articles of incorporation
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- To: Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs
- Washington, D.C. 20001
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- We, the undersigned natural persons of the age of eighteen years
- or more, acting as incorporators of a corporation, adopt the
- following Articles of Incorporation for such corporation pursuant to
- the District of Columbia Non-Profit Corporation Act:
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- 1. The name of the corporation is Internet Society.
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- 2. The period of its duration is perpetual.
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- 3. The purpose or purposes for which the corporation is organized are
- as follows:
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- To be a non-profit corporation (without capital stock), which
- shall be operated exclusively for educational, charitable and
- scientific purposes. Such educational, charitable, and scientific
- purposes shall include carrying on activities:
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- A. To facilitate and support the technical evolution of the
- Internet as a research and education infrastructure, and to
- stimulate the involvement of the scientific community,
- industry, government and others in the evolution of the
- Internet;
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- B. To educate the scientific community, industry and the public at
- large concerning the technology, use and application of the
- Internet;
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- C. To promote educational applications of Internet technology for
- the benefit of government, colleges and universities, industry,
- and the public at large;
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- D. To provide a forum for exploration of new Internet
- applications, and to stimulate collaboration among
- organizations in their operational use of the global Internet.
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- To exercise all the powers conferred upon corporations formed
- under the District of Columbia Non-Profit Corporation Act in order
- to accomplish the corporation's educational, charitable and
- scientific purposes; and to take other actions necessary or
- convenient to effect any or all of the purposes for which the
- corporation is organized.
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- 4. The corporation shall not issue any capital stock.
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- 5. The corporation shall have classes of members, and the
- qualifications and rights of the members, including any right to
- vote, shall be as provided in the by-laws.
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- 6. The board of directors of the corporation shall be known as the
- Board of Trustees. Except for the initial Board of Trustees, whose
- names are set forth in these Articles of Incorporation, the manner
- in which the Trustees are to be elected or appointed shall be as
- provided in the by-laws.
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- 7. Provisions for the regulation of the internal affairs of the
- corporation, including provisions for the distribution of assets
- on dissolution or liquidation, are:
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- A. No part of the net earnings of the corporation shall inure to
- the benefit of, or be distributable to, any of the Trustees or
- officers or members of the corporation, or any other person,
- except that the corporation shall be authorized and empowered
- to pay reasonable compensation for services rendered. No
- substantial part of the activities of the corporation shall be
- the carrying on of propaganda, or otherwise attempting, to
- influence legislation. The corporation shall not participate
- in, or intervene in (including the publishing or distributing
- of statements), any political campaign on behalf of any
- candidate for public office.
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- B. The Articles of Incorporation may be amended by the affirmative
- vote of at least four-fifths of the members of the Board of
- Trustees then in office, except that unanimous consent of the
- members of the Board of Trustees then in office shall be
- required for any amendment of this Article 7.
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- C. Upon the liquidation, dissolution, or winding up of the
- corporation, after all of its liabilities and obligations have
- been paid, satisfied and discharged, or adequate provision has
- been made therefor, all of the assets of the corporation shall
- be distributed exclusively for such educational, charitable and
- scientific purposes as the Trustees (or such other persons as
- may be in charge of liquidation) shall determine, provided that
- such distributions shall be made to one or more organizations
- which qualify as exempt organizations under Section 501(c)(3)
- of the United States Internal Revenue Code as amended (or
- corresponding provisions of any future United States Internal
- Revenue law).
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- 8. The address, including street and number, of the initial
- registered office of the corporation is c/o C T Corporation
- System, 1030 15th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20005, and the
- name of its initial registered agent at such address is C T
- Corporation System.
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- 9. The number of Trustees constituting the initial Board of Trustees
- of the corporation is fourteen, and the names and addresses,
- including street and number, if any, of the persons who are to
- serve as the initial Trustees until the first annual meeting or
- until their successors be elected and qualify are:
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- Charles N. Brownstein
- National Science Foundation
- 1800 G Street, N.W.
- Washington, DC 20550
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- Vinton G. Cerf
- CNRI
- 1895 Preston White Drive, Suite 100
- Reston, Virginia 22091
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- A. Lyman Chapin
- Bolt Beranek & Newman
- 70 Fawcett Street
- Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
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- Ira Fuchs
- Princeton University
- 220 Nassau Hall
- Princeton, New Jersey 08544
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- Frode Greisen
- UNI-C, Technical University
- Lyngby, DK 2800, Denmark
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- Geoff Huston
- Australian Academic and Research Network
- P.O. Box 1142
- Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
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- Robert E. Kahn
- 1895 Preston White Drive, Suite 100
- Reston, Virginia 22091
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- Tomaz Kalin
- RARE Secretariat
- 466 - 468 SINGEL
- Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Kenneth M. King
- EDUCOM
- 1112 16th Street, N.W., Suite 600
- Washington, DC 20036
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- Lawrence H. Landweber
- University of Wisconsin
- 1210 W. Dayton Street
- Madison, Wisconsin 53706
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- Kees Neggers
- SURFnet bv
- Godebaldkwartier 24
- 3511 DX Utrecht, Netherlands
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- Michael M. Roberts
- EDUCOM
- 1112 16th Street, N.W., Suite 100
- Washington, DC 20036
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- Anthony M. Rutkowski
- Sprint International
- 12490 Sunrise Valley Drive
- Reston, Virginia 22096
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- 10. The name and address, including street and number, if any, of
- each incorporator is:
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- NAME ADDRESS
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- Robert E. Kahn 1895 Preston White Drive
- Reston, Virginia 22091
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- Kenneth M. King 1112 16th Street, N.W.
- Washington, DC 20036
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- Juergen Harms 24 rue Ge'ne'ral Dufour
- Geneva CH-1204, Switzerland
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- 2. Security Considerations
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- Documents of this type do not directly impact the security of the
- Internet infrastructure or its applications.
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- 3. Author's Address
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- Internet Society Board of Trustees
- Internet Society
- 12020 Sunrise Vally Drive - Suite 210
- Reston, VA
- USA
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- phone: +1 703 648 9888
- fax: +1 703 638 9887
- email: isoc-trustees@isoc.org
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