Network Working Group ISOC Board of Trustees
Request for Comments: 2134 ISOC
Category: Informational April 1997
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
OF
INTERNET SOCIETY
Status of this Memo
This memo provides information for the Internet community. This memo
does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of
this memo is unlimited.
Abstract
These are the articles of incorporation of the Internet Society.
They are published for the information of the IETF community at the
request of the poisson working group.
1. ISOC articles of incorporation
To: Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs
Washington, D.C. 20001
We, the undersigned natural persons of the age of eighteen years
or more, acting as incorporators of a corporation, adopt the
following Articles of Incorporation for such corporation pursuant to
the District of Columbia Non-Profit Corporation Act:
1. The name of the corporation is Internet Society.
2. The period of its duration is perpetual.
3. The purpose or purposes for which the corporation is organized are
as follows:
To be a non-profit corporation (without capital stock), which
shall be operated exclusively for educational, charitable and
scientific purposes. Such educational, charitable, and scientific
purposes shall include carrying on activities:
A. To facilitate and support the technical evolution of the
Internet as a research and education infrastructure, and to
stimulate the involvement of the scientific community,
industry, government and others in the evolution of the
Internet;
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B. To educate the scientific community, industry and the public at
large concerning the technology, use and application of the
Internet;
C. To promote educational applications of Internet technology for
the benefit of government, colleges and universities, industry,
and the public at large;
D. To provide a forum for exploration of new Internet
applications, and to stimulate collaboration among
organizations in their operational use of the global Internet.
To exercise all the powers conferred upon corporations formed
under the District of Columbia Non-Profit Corporation Act in order
to accomplish the corporation's educational, charitable and
scientific purposes; and to take other actions necessary or
convenient to effect any or all of the purposes for which the
corporation is organized.
4. The corporation shall not issue any capital stock.
5. The corporation shall have classes of members, and the
qualifications and rights of the members, including any right to
vote, shall be as provided in the by-laws.
6. The board of directors of the corporation shall be known as the
Board of Trustees. Except for the initial Board of Trustees, whose
names are set forth in these Articles of Incorporation, the manner
in which the Trustees are to be elected or appointed shall be as
provided in the by-laws.
7. Provisions for the regulation of the internal affairs of the
corporation, including provisions for the distribution of assets
on dissolution or liquidation, are:
A. No part of the net earnings of the corporation shall inure to
the benefit of, or be distributable to, any of the Trustees or
officers or members of the corporation, or any other person,
except that the corporation shall be authorized and empowered
to pay reasonable compensation for services rendered. No
substantial part of the activities of the corporation shall be
the carrying on of propaganda, or otherwise attempting, to
influence legislation. The corporation shall not participate
in, or intervene in (including the publishing or distributing
of statements), any political campaign on behalf of any
candidate for public office.
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B. The Articles of Incorporation may be amended by the affirmative
vote of at least four-fifths of the members of the Board of
Trustees then in office, except that unanimous consent of the
members of the Board of Trustees then in office shall be
required for any amendment of this Article 7.
C. Upon the liquidation, dissolution, or winding up of the
corporation, after all of its liabilities and obligations have
been paid, satisfied and discharged, or adequate provision has
been made therefor, all of the assets of the corporation shall
be distributed exclusively for such educational, charitable and
scientific purposes as the Trustees (or such other persons as
may be in charge of liquidation) shall determine, provided that
such distributions shall be made to one or more organizations
which qualify as exempt organizations under Section 501(c)(3)
of the United States Internal Revenue Code as amended (or
corresponding provisions of any future United States Internal
Revenue law).
8. The address, including street and number, of the initial
registered office of the corporation is c/o C T Corporation
System, 1030 15th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20005, and the
name of its initial registered agent at such address is C T
Corporation System.
9. The number of Trustees constituting the initial Board of Trustees
of the corporation is fourteen, and the names and addresses,
including street and number, if any, of the persons who are to
serve as the initial Trustees until the first annual meeting or
until their successors be elected and qualify are:
Charles N. Brownstein
National Science Foundation
1800 G Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20550
Vinton G. Cerf
CNRI
1895 Preston White Drive, Suite 100
Reston, Virginia 22091
A. Lyman Chapin
Bolt Beranek & Newman
70 Fawcett Street
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
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Ira Fuchs
Princeton University
220 Nassau Hall
Princeton, New Jersey 08544
Frode Greisen
UNI-C, Technical University
Lyngby, DK 2800, Denmark
Geoff Huston
Australian Academic and Research Network
P.O. Box 1142
Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
Robert E. Kahn
1895 Preston White Drive, Suite 100
Reston, Virginia 22091
Tomaz Kalin
RARE Secretariat
466 - 468 SINGEL
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Kenneth M. King
EDUCOM
1112 16th Street, N.W., Suite 600
Washington, DC 20036
Lawrence H. Landweber
University of Wisconsin
1210 W. Dayton Street
Madison, Wisconsin 53706
Kees Neggers
SURFnet bv
Godebaldkwartier 24
3511 DX Utrecht, Netherlands
Michael M. Roberts
EDUCOM
1112 16th Street, N.W., Suite 100
Washington, DC 20036
Anthony M. Rutkowski
Sprint International
12490 Sunrise Valley Drive
Reston, Virginia 22096
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10. The name and address, including street and number, if any, of
each incorporator is:
NAME ADDRESS
Robert E. Kahn 1895 Preston White Drive
Reston, Virginia 22091
Kenneth M. King 1112 16th Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20036
Juergen Harms 24 rue Ge'ne'ral Dufour
Geneva CH-1204, Switzerland
2. Security Considerations
Documents of this type do not directly impact the security of the
Internet infrastructure or its applications.
3. Author's Address
Internet Society Board of Trustees
Internet Society
12020 Sunrise Vally Drive - Suite 210
Reston, VA
USA
phone: +1 703 648 9888
fax: +1 703 638 9887
email: isoc-trustees@isoc.org
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