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- ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
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- OF
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- INTERNET SOCIETY
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-
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- 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;
- 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.
- 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:
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- Charles N. Brownstein
- National Science Foundation
- 1800 G Street, N.W.
- Washington, DC 20550
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- 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
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- 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
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- Tomaz Kalin
- RARE Secretariat
- 466 - 468 SINGEL
- Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Kenneth M. King
- EDUCOM
- 1112 16th Street, N.W., Suite 600
- Washington, DC 20036
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- 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:
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-
-
- NAME ADDRESS
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- Robert E. Kahn 1895 Preston White Drive
- Reston, Virginia 22091
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- Kenneth M. King 1112 16th Street, N.W.
- Washington, DC 20036
-