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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Hi. I didn't get Alan's
email through the list - not sure did he email you off-list? It's
not in my spam folder, too.<br>
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Anyway, see comments below:<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/27/21 12:14, Andrew Sullivan via
Chapter-delegates wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite"
cite="mid:20210927161427.yhnizkbra5226nvb@outlook.office365.com">On
Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 02:46:30PM +0200, Alan Levin wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite">Oh wow, this is the most US centric email
I have seen in a long time.
<br>
Seriously Andrew?
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I am quite serious that I am not willing to break US or other
laws, yes.
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I agree with you, you shouldn't break the law!! I don't want to
comment on Alan's words, as I don't know what else he might have
said.<br>
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<blockquote type="cite"
cite="mid:20210927161427.yhnizkbra5226nvb@outlook.office365.com">
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<blockquote type="cite">I will not state the obvious, which is
that ISOC should move away from the
<br>
USA to Switzerland because ISOC has actually had a Switzerland
office for
<br>
more than 20 years!
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</blockquote>
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I believe we have been over that ground more than once: this is
not the sort of thing we can do unilaterally.
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</blockquote>
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It doesn't need to move to Switzerland; there are plenty of US-based
NGOs, with the same tax status as ISOC, which are doing amazing
work, including in Internet-related issues, around the world. Since
you asked for suggestions, here's one - perhaps it would be good for
ISOC, instead of paying $$$ to lawyers, to go an talk to them, and
find out how they do it? <br>
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However, I want to note that this conversation was started by two
Trustees, elected by chapters, who were soliciting information from
the chapters, and not from the CEO. When you start to respond, you
are driving the conversation in another direction, and I am not sure
if some chapters won't prefer to stay quiet, or perhaps reach out to
George and Muhammad in private emails, so that they avoid any
impression of confrontation with the CEO? Also, in some cultures
it's not polite to confront someone, who is in a senior position
like yourself. <br>
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Hope this is useful for the chapters!<br>
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