[chapter-delegates] Patent on IPv6

[Veni Markovski]

At 10:30 03-03-05  +0100, Patrick Vande Walle wrote:

>Yes. It is true that the behaviour of the members (individual and org ... 
>or chapters) could have a negative effect on  ISOC's image. When things go 
>too far, ISOC should be in a position to protect itself. This is why we 
>need more org members, in order to be able to exclude one, with only a 
>marginal effect on the budget.

Or we need better work with .org, rather than with org members. The current 
budget is largely due to the .org (PIR) funding. Remove that, and no org 
members will be able to help ISOC stay alive. I've warned several times, 
including in public, that the way ISOC budget is structured, makes the 
organization vulnerable. We need to have a budget that comes from programs, 
not programs that come from the budget. We need to have ISOC with its 
office in Geneva to start working on the EU 6th Framework, on different 
other initiatives. We need ISOC to organize the chapters so that they can 
become the members of a natural consortium which will then apply for 
funding from the EU. But because ISOC does not do that, may be we just need 
to start organizing this on our own - through local chapters activities, 
through sighning MoU between chapters (as we did between ISOC - Bulgaria 
and ISOC - Luxembourg), and then through follow up.

v.