[Chapter-delegates] What should ISOC's future goals be? How can we work toward achieving them as ISOC Chapters?

[Veni Markovski]

Hi.
I was hopeful that you haven’t talked to lawyers :)
But I can’t stop thinking how a chapter had some issues, because their
legislation was changed after the fact of them getting funding for a great
cause: translating the IETF journal in their language. This noble cause
turned out to be liability at some point.
Perhaps chapters can provide ideas, based on their respected national
legislation, instead of trying to figure it out from Reston, Virginia, so
let’s see what they say.
For the record — we don’t have such a problem in Bulgaria, so I speak from
piece of information we’ve heard in our chapter about other chapters.

On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 16:45 Andrew Sullivan via Chapter-delegates <
chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I appreciate your message.  One specific suggestion particularly makes me
> wonder:
>
> On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 04:21:46PM -0400, Veni Markovski via
> Chapter-delegates wrote:
>
> >basics, needed for running a chapter; however in some countries getting
> >funding from the US is not a good idea. Perhaps ISOC could work towards
> >finding a solution for these chapters.
>
> As you might imagine, over time we've spent a fair amount of time (and
> more than nothing in legal fees, too) trying to tackle the issue of money
> flows.  In some countries it's not merely that getting funding from the US
> isn't a good idea, but instead illegal or highly restricted.  So, that
> raises for me two questions:
>
> 1.  Do you think it would be fair somehow to provide funding where it's
> "not a good idea" but not where it's legally restricted?  I'd be keen to
> hear community views about that.
>
> 2.  Given that the Internet Society is in fact incorporated in the US, how
> do you think we might get around the problem of sending funding from the US
> (and, especially, do that without breaking any laws)




>
> Thanks,
>
> A
>
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Veni Markovski
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