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

[Veni Markovski]

Norbert,
To your last sentence - same valid for each and every ISOC chapter. There's
no way of making it single-minded, so to speak, when there are 80 different
jurisdictions.

V.

On Sunday, September 16, 2012, President of ISOC Cambodia wrote:

>  On 9/17/2012 3:13 AM, Grigori Saghyan wrote:
>
> Dear Klaust,
> 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 SaghyanISOC.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
>
>
>

-- 
Best,
Veni

== Sent from my phone, so any spelling mistakes are caused by the
touchscreen keyboard. That's a nice excuse, isn't it;-)
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