[Chapter-delegates] [Internet Policy] Internet Society is denying Iranians for participation in Internet Governance Forum

[John Levine]

>Could Iran not be organized out of the Geneva office, where such obstacles
>don't exist? Or is the Swiss office still subservient to the US corporation?

ISOC is incorporated in the District of Columbia in the US.  There are
fewer more reliable ways to annoy the US government than to play paper
games to try to circumvent the law.  Also, you might want to check
which sanctions the Swiss government relaxed in January and which ones
they haven't.

>(Maybe the US isn't the best place to incorporate an international
>diplomatic body...

ISOC may be many things, but an international diplomatic body is not
one of them.  Neither is ICANN.

R's,
John