RFC 2134: Articles of Incorporation of Internet Society

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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