<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">Dear Members of the Board of Trustees:</span><div style="font-size: 14px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 14px; ">With reference to the discussion this afternoon of the proposed amendments to the ISOC Bylaws, allow me to recall the draft amendment which I submitted to Chapter Support on 18 November 2010 following the discussion at the London INET/Chapters meetings in London. </div><div style="font-size: 14px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 14px; ">Best regards,</div><div style="font-size: 14px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 14px; ">Christopher Wilkinson</div><div style="font-size: 14px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 14px; ">------------------------------</div><div style="font-size: 14px; "><br></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14px; "><b>INTERNET SOCIETY BYLAWS</b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 15px; font-size: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14px; "> <b>. . . . </b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 15px; font-size: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14px; "><b>Article VI – Membership (now proposed Article V)</b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14px; "><b><br></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14px; "><b>Section 1.</b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 15px; font-size: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14px; ">The Society shall have <i>three </i>classes of members: <i>Chapter Members</i>, Organizational Members and Individual Members.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 15px; font-size: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14px; "><b>Section 1 bis.</b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 15px; font-size: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14px; "><i>The Society shall have Chapter Members in those countries, regions and cities where Internet Society Chapters may be created and endorsed by the Board.</i></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 15px; font-size: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14px; "><i>Member Chapters shall elect to the Board such number of Trustees as may from time to time be determined by the Board.<br>
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Member Chapters may constitute among themselves Regional Associations subject to applicable local law.</i></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 15px; font-size: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14px; "><b>Section 2.</b> Organizational Members [unchanged]</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 15px; font-size: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14px; "><b>Section 3</b>. Individual Members [unchanged]</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 15px; font-size: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14px; "><b>Section 4. </b>Founding and Pioneer Members. [unchanged]</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 15px; font-size: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14px; "><b>Section 5. </b>The Board is authorized to add, delete or remove classes of members by the affirmative vote of at least two-thirds of the members of the Board of Trustees then in office. [unchanged]</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14px; "><b><br></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14px; "><b>Section 6. </b>The Society shall have such meetings of its members as the Board of Trustees shall from time to time fix. [unchanged]</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 15px; font-size: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 15px; font-size: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14px; "><b>INTERNET SOCIETY ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION</b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 15px; font-size: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14px; "> . . . . </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 15px; font-size: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14px; "><b>Clause 5:</b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>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. [unchanged]</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 15px; font-size: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14px; "> . . . . . </div><div style="font-size: 14px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 14px; ">---------------------------</div><div><br style="font-size: 14px; "><div style="font-size: 14px; "><br></div><div><br style="font-size: 14px; "><div style="font-size: 14px; "><div>On 18 Nov 2010, at 17:48, Christopher Wilkinson wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear Anne Lord and colleagues:<div><br></div><div>I recall that during the Chapters' meeting in London on 30 September during the discussion of the proposed affiliation agreement, I mentioned that it might be appropriate for the Internet Society Chapters to be formally recognised as Members of the Internet Society-</div><div><br></div><div>On reflection, and after researching this question somewhat, it would appear to me to be rather curious, if not anomalous, that on the one hand the Internet Society Articles of Incorporation require that the voting rights of our Members should be provided for in the Bylaws (and that the Chapters do in fact elect Trustees), but that on the other hand there is no provision in the Bylaws for the membership of the Chapters, not for their voting rights.</div><div><br></div><div>I would suggest that if this situation could be rectified, it would place the discussion on the proposed affiliation agreements in a different and more appropriate and balanced perspective. (I take it that the Internet Society does not propose to enter into contractual performance agreements with e.g. the organisational members.)</div><div><br></div><div>The necessary changes could be accomplished through very minor amendments to the Internet Society's Bylaws. I attach a short draft text to this effect.</div><div><br></div><div>I would be grateful if the Trustees and Staff of the Internet Society could give this question their attention.</div><div><br></div><div>Yours Sincerely,</div><div><br></div><div>Christopher Wilkinson</div><div>Chair, ISOC-ECC</div><div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><br><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#144FAE"><br></font><br></div></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br style="font-size: 14px; "></div></div></div></body></html>