<div dir="auto">Hi. </div><div dir="auto">I was hopeful that you haven’t talked to lawyers :) </div><div dir="auto">But I can’t stop thinking how a chapter had some issues, because their legislation was changed after the fact of them getting funding for a great cause: translating the IETF journal in their language. This noble cause turned out to be liability at some point. </div><div dir="auto">Perhaps chapters can provide ideas, based on their respected national legislation, instead of trying to figure it out from Reston, Virginia, so let’s see what they say. </div><div dir="auto">For the record — we don’t have such a problem in Bulgaria, so I speak from piece of information we’ve heard in our chapter about other chapters. </div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 16:45 Andrew Sullivan via Chapter-delegates <<a href="mailto:chapter-delegates@elists.isoc.org">chapter-delegates@elists.isoc.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex" dir="auto">Hi,<br>
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I appreciate your message. One specific suggestion particularly makes me wonder: <br>
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On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 04:21:46PM -0400, Veni Markovski via Chapter-delegates wrote:<br>
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>basics, needed for running a chapter; however in some countries getting<br>
>funding from the US is not a good idea. Perhaps ISOC could work towards<br>
>finding a solution for these chapters.<br>
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As you might imagine, over time we've spent a fair amount of time (and more than nothing in legal fees, too) trying to tackle the issue of money flows. In some countries it's not merely that getting funding from the US isn't a good idea, but instead illegal or highly restricted. So, that raises for me two questions:<br>
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1. Do you think it would be fair somehow to provide funding where it's "not a good idea" but not where it's legally restricted? I'd be keen to hear community views about that.<br>
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2. Given that the Internet Society is in fact incorporated in the US, how do you think we might get around the problem of sending funding from the US (and, especially, do that without breaking any laws)</blockquote><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex" dir="auto"><br>
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Thanks,<br>
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A<br>
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