[Chapter-delegates] Does your Chapter want to be a remote hub for the Global INET?

[Peter Koch]

On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 11:09:54PM +0100, gajewski at isoc.org wrote:

> The problem is that ISOC does not have an exclusive right to use the name "Internet Society" (it is registered as ownership of ISOC only in very few countries). World-wide there are several examples of NGOs named " 'country name' Internet Society" or "Internet Society of 'country name'" which are not Chapters of ISOC...  They named themselves so because "Internet Society" is simply a natural name for an NGO related to Internet and in most cases they cannot be blamed for uzurpation of ISOC ownership.

I cannot resist to say that this is but one example why giving up the brand
in favour of a more generic naming ought to be reconsidered. ISC (and note that
that's the "Internet Society of China" in this context, not the Internet Storm Center
nor the Internet Systems Consortium) has, to confirm Joly's observation, also in
my memory never used _ISOC_ for referring to their organization.

-Peter