[Chapter-delegates] Pour Memoire: ISOC ByLaws - Proposed Amendments for Chapter membership

[Alejandro Pisanty]

Christopher,

thanks - personally - for this communication to the Board of Trustees, of 
which this weekend's is my last session.

For all I know, the Board has taken note of your contribution and I 
support the decision not to act on it now.

The Bylaws revision that is ongoing is minimal and meant only to solve 
some specific problems that have arisen with legal compliance and one 
practicality - of certain size, no doubt - for the Board itself.

When the issue of revising the bylaws was first brought up the Trustees 
discussed several larger-scale issues that would also need be taken up and 
we all agreed that any major revision has to be made with a well-guided, 
very participative open process.

I hereby make the commitment to follow up on that process as I leave the 
Board and continue my duties as an ISOC member and chapter leader. There 
will be much to discuss and we must take into account the immense 
diversity of views among us.

Yours,

Alejandro Pisanty


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On Sat, 30 Jul 2011, Christopher Wilkinson wrote:

> Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 16:59:36 +0200
> From: Christopher Wilkinson <cw at christopherwilkinson.eu>
> To: Chapter Delegates <chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org>
> Cc: ISOC Chapter Support <chapter-support at isoc.org>,
>     executif at wallonie-isoc.org
> Subject: [Chapter-delegates] Pour Memoire: ISOC ByLaws - Proposed Amendments
>     	for Chapter membership
> 
> Dear Members of the Board of Trustees:
>
> 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.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Christopher Wilkinson
>
> ------------------------------
>
> INTERNET SOCIETY BYLAWS
>
> . . . .
>
> Article VI – Membership (now proposed Article V)
>
> Section 1.
>
> The Society shall have three classes of members: Chapter Members, 
> Organizational Members and Individual Members.
>
> Section 1 bis.
>
> The Society shall have Chapter Members in those countries, regions and cities 
> where Internet Society Chapters may be created and endorsed by the Board.
>
> Member Chapters shall elect to the Board such number of Trustees as may from 
> time to time be determined by the Board.
>
> Member Chapters may constitute among themselves Regional Associations subject 
> to applicable local law.
>
> Section 2. Organizational Members [unchanged]
>
> Section 3. Individual Members [unchanged]
>
> Section 4. Founding and Pioneer Members. [unchanged]
>
> Section 5. 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]
>
> Section 6. The Society shall have such meetings of its members as the Board 
> of Trustees shall from time to time fix. [unchanged]
>
>
> INTERNET SOCIETY ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
>
> . . . .
>
> Clause 5:	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]
>
> . . . . .
>
> ---------------------------
>
>
>
> On 18 Nov 2010, at 17:48, Christopher Wilkinson wrote:
>
>> Dear Anne Lord and colleagues:
>> 
>> 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-
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> 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.)
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> I would be grateful if the Trustees and Staff of the Internet Society could 
>> give this question their attention.
>> 
>> Yours Sincerely,
>> 
>> Christopher Wilkinson
>> Chair, ISOC-ECC
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>