[Chapter-delegates] Resend of August 30 Request for Review and Comment on current proposed revisions to the By-laws

[President of ISOC Cambodia]

On 9/17/2012 3:13 AM, Grigori Saghyan wrote:
> Dear Klaus,
> thank you for important point -  LoA.
> Let me ask all chapters - why we need LoA?
> If we are ISOC members -  we accept ISOC ByLaws as members.
> If ISOC chapter is an "agregator" of ISOC  members opinions on local
> level, and  all Chapter participants are ISOC members - why they need to
> sign additional LoA? like  ISOC members once more confirmed, that the
> agree with ISOC ByLaws?
> I think clarification of this point is very important.
>
> Grigori Saghyan
> ISOC.AM
Thanks, Grigori,

for your questions. Just for further illustration, I add the following 
information:

= =
 From the Bylaws of the "ISOC Cambodia Chapter" (our official name that 
cannot easily be changed to "Internet Society - Cambodia Chapter"). The 
Bylaws formulation was started on the basis of a draft received from 
ISOC HQ when some people started to consider the creation of a Chapter 
in Cambodia. Then, in a lengthy process of correspondence back and 
forth, with ISOC Chapter Formation, the present text was negotiated and 
voted upon by our 2011 Annual General Meeting (and I had asked our 
Members to please NOT propose any amendments, as this would delay the 
process again, as any proposed changes would have to be approved by ISOC 
Chapter Formation, before we could vote on it.

/= =/

/*Article I. - Name*/

 1.

    /This organization shall be called the Cambodia Chapter of the Internet Society, in short ISOC Cambodia Chapter./

 2.

    /The Chapter shall be established as a non-profit organization under
    the laws of Cambodia./

 3.

    /This Chapter is chartered by the Internet Society. These bylaws
    neither supersede nor abrogate any of the Bylaws of the Internet
    Society that regulate chapter affairs./

/*Article XI. - Amendment and Voting Procedures*/

 1.

    /All proposed changes to these Chapter Bylaws shall have been
    approved by the Internet Society (International) before being
    presented to the Chapter membership for a vote./

    /= =/

  *

    The specifications, who has to agree on the Bylaws text first before
    the Membership can vote on it, raised the question whether we really
    qualify to become an "organization under the law in Cambodia" if our
    Membership cannot independently decide on the text of our Bylaws. -
    I had raised this, but as with many other things, there was no
    response from ISOC HQ.

  *

    Whatever is being decided next -- on a LoA -- it will have to be
    checked also against our legal context

Norbert Klein
ISOC Cambodia Chapter


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