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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/17/2012 3:13 AM, Grigori Saghyan
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<pre wrap="">Dear Klaus,
thank you for important point - LoA.
Let me ask all chapters - why we need LoA?
If we are ISOC members - we accept ISOC ByLaws as members.
If ISOC chapter is an "agregator" of ISOC members opinions on local
level, and all Chapter participants are ISOC members - why they need to
sign additional LoA? like ISOC members once more confirmed, that the
agree with ISOC ByLaws?
I think clarification of this point is very important.
Grigori Saghyan
ISOC.AM
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Thanks, Grigori, <br>
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for your questions. Just for further illustration, I add the
following information:<br>
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From the Bylaws of the “ISOC Cambodia
Chapter” (our official name that cannot easily be changed to
“Internet Society - Cambodia Chapter”). The Bylaws formulation
was started on the basis of a draft received from ISOC HQ when some
people started to consider the creation of a Chapter in Cambodia.
Then, in a lengthy process of correspondence back and forth, with
ISOC Chapter Formation, the present text was negotiated and voted
upon by our 2011 Annual General Meeting (and I had asked our Members
to please NOT propose any amendments, as this would delay the
process
again, as any proposed changes would have to be approved by ISOC
Chapter Formation, before we could vote on it.
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><i>= =</i></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.07in; margin-bottom: 0.07in"><i><small><font
size="5"><small><b>Article
I. - Name</b></small></font></small></i></p>
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<pre style="margin-top: 0.07in; margin-bottom: 0.07in; text-align: justify"><i><font size="3">This organization shall be called the Cambodia Chapter of the Internet Society, in short ISOC Cambodia Chapter.</font></i></pre>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.07in" align="JUSTIFY"><i><font size="3">The
Chapter shall be established as a non-profit organization
under the laws of Cambodia.</font></i></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.07in" align="JUSTIFY"><i><font size="3"><span
lang="en-US">This Chapter is chartered by the Internet
Society. These bylaws neither supersede nor abrogate any
of the Bylaws of the Internet Society that regulate
chapter affairs.</span></font></i></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.07in; margin-bottom: 0.07in" align="JUSTIFY"><i><small><font
size="5"><small><b>Article
XI. - Amendment and Voting Procedures</b></small></font></small></i></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.07in" align="JUSTIFY"><i><font size="3">All
proposed changes to these Chapter Bylaws shall have been
approved by the Internet Society (International) before
being presented to the Chapter membership for a vote.</font></i></p>
<p style="text-indent: -0.25in; margin-top: 0.07in"
align="JUSTIFY"><i><font size="3">= =</font></i></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.07in" align="JUSTIFY"><font size="3">The
specifications, who has to agree on the Bylaws text first
before the Membership can vote on it, raised the question
whether we really qualify to become an “organization under
the law in Cambodia” if our Membership cannot
independently decide on the text of our Bylaws. - I had
raised this, but as with many other things, there was no
response from </font><font size="3"><font size="3"> ISOC
HQ</font>.</font></p>
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Whatever is being decided next – on a LoA – it will have
to be checked also against our legal context</font></p>
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Norbert Klein<br>
ISOC Cambodia Chapter<br>
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