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- 2/28/92
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- INTERNET SOCIETY
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- INTERIM
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- B Y - L A W S
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- ARTICLE I
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- OFFICES
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- Section 1. The principal office of The Internet Society shall be in the
- Area of Metropolitan Washington, D.C., U.S.A.
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- Section 2. The Society may also have offices at such other places as the
- Board of Trustees may from time to time determine or the affairs of the Society
- may require.
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- ARTICLE II
- INITIAL PERIOD OF OPERATIONS
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- Section 1. The Society's "Initial Period of Operations," which is
- referred to elsewhere in these By-Laws, shall be for a period of three years
- from the date of the meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Society at the
- initial annual meeting of the Society.
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- ARTICLE III
- BOARD OF TRUSTEES
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- Section 1. The Board of Trustees of the Society shall consist of not more
- than twenty Trustees (excluding any non-voting Trustees) unless and until
- such number is changed by action of the Board of Trustees. The persons
- designated in the Charter as the initial Trustees shall hold office during the
- Society's Initial Period of Operations until such time as their respective
- successors are appointed or elected and qualify. Each Trustee appointed or
- elected thereafter shall hold office for a term of three years, except when some
- shorter term is specified by the Board of Trustees with respect to the appoint-
- ment or election of a particular Trustee. Only Regular Individual Members of
- the Society shall be eligible to serve on the Board of Trustees.
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- Section 2. The Board of Trustees is authorized, from time to time, to
- appoint, or to make arrangements for the election of, Trustees, by the Regular
- Individual Members of the Society (as defined in Article VI, Section 3, Clause
- (1), of these By-Laws), such that the total number of Trustees shall be not in
- excess of twenty (excluding any non-voting Trustees). Each of the Charter
- Members of the Society (as specified in Article VI, Section 2, of these By-Laws)
- shall at all times have a right to designate one Trustee who shall thereupon be
- appointed by the Board; with this exception, any vacancy which arises because
- a Trustee has ceased to serve may be filled for the remainder of the unexpired
- term. All Trustees appointed by the Board shall be by the affirmative vote of
- at least four-fifths of the members of the Board of Trustees then in office.
- The Board shall seek to have among the Trustees representative individuals from
- industry, from educational and nonprofit organizations and from government.
- The Board may also make such arrangements as it deems appropriate for the
- terms of the Trustees to be staggered, including the terms of the Initial
- Trustees. A Trustee may serve additional terms provided that the number of
- successive terms shall not exceed two, except that service as a Trustee during
- the Initial Period of Operations shall not be counted in this computation.
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- Section 3. All actions taken by the Board pursuant to Sections 1 and 2
- of this Article III shall require the affirmative vote of at least four-fifths
- of the members of the Board of Trustees then in office.
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- Section 4. The Trustees shall not receive any compensation (apart from
- reimbursement of expenses) for their services as Trustees, but this shall not
- preclude reasonable compensation for services rendered to the Society by a
- Trustee in some other capacity.
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- Section 5. The affairs of the Society shall be directed by its Board of
- Trustees. The President of the Society shall submit to the Board, at least one
- month prior to the beginning of each fiscal year, a budget for the Society's
- coming fiscal year, for the Board's consideration and approval.
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- Section 6. Meetings of the Board of Trustees shall be held at least
- annually and at any place designated by the Board.
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- Section 7. Special meetings of the Board of Trustees may be called at
- any time by the Board, or by the Executive Committee if one be constituted, or
- by vote at a meeting of the Board, or by the President of the Society, or by the
- Executive Director of the Society, or by a majority of the members of the Board
- of Trustees then in office. Special meetings may be held at such place or
- places as may be designated from time to time by the Board; in the absence of
- such designation, such meetings shall be held at such place or places as may be
- designated in the call.
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- Section 8. Notice of the place and time of each meeting of the Board
- shall be served on each Trustee, by Internet mail or by oral, telegraphic or
- other written notice, duly served on or sent or mailed to him or her at least
- thirty days before the date of the meeting, except that if a meeting is held
- pursuant to Section 9 of this Article then seven calendar days notice shall
- suffice.
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- Section 9. Any or all of the Trustees may participate in a meeting of the
- Board of Trustees, or of a committee of the Board, by means of conference
- telephone or by any means of electronic communication by which all persons
- participating in the meeting are able to communicate contemporaneously with
- one another, and such participation shall constitute presence in person at the
- meeting.
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- Section 10. At all meetings of the Board, a majority of the members of
- the Board of Trustees then in office (including any ex officio Trustees) shall
- constitute a quorum for the transaction of business and the act of the majority
- of the Trustees present at any meeting at which a quorum is present shall be
- the act of the Board. However, with respect to any action for which, under the
- Society's Charter or By-Laws, a greater affirmative vote is expressly required,
- such express provisions shall control; and it is to be noted that such
- requirements are contained in Section 6 of the Charter, relating to amendment
- of the Charter, and in Article III, Sections 1, 2, 3 and 13, relating to certain
- actions by the Board of Trustees, and in Article V, Sections 1, 2, 3, 4 and 7,
- involving certain provisions relating to officers and to the Executive Director,
- and in Article VI, Section 2 (1)(c) relating to Charter Members, and in Article
- VIII, Section 1, relating to amendment of the By-Laws. If a quorum shall not
- be present at any meeting of the Board, the Trustees present thereat may
- adjourn the meeting from time to time, without notice other than
- announcement at the meeting, until a quorum shall be present.
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- Section 11. Any action required to be taken at a meeting of the Board
- of Trustees, or any action which may be taken at a meeting of the Board of
- Trustees, may be taken without a meeting if a consent in writing, setting forth
- the action so taken, shall be obtained from all of the Trustees; and such
- consent shall have the same force and effect as a unanimous vote, and may be
- stated as such.
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- Section 12. Actions of the Board of Trustees, whether taken at a meeting
- or otherwise, shall be duly recorded in minutes and retained in the Society's
- records.
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- Section 13. The Board of Trustees, by resolution adopted by the
- affirmative vote of at least four-fifths of the members of the Board of Trustees
- then in office, may designate three or more Trustees to constitute an Executive
- Committee. The Executive Committee, to the extent provided in such
- resolution, shall have and may exercise all of the authority of the Board of
- Trustees in the management of the affairs of the Society (except for those
- matters which, under the Society's Charter or By-Laws, expressly require the
- affirmative vote of at least a majority, or more than a majority, of the members
- of the Board of Trustees then in office). The Executive Committee shall keep
- regular minutes of its proceedings and shall report the same to the full Board
- when required. The affirmative vote of a majority of the members of the Board
- of Trustees then in office may terminate the Executive Committee.
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- Section 14. The Board of Trustees may establish such other Committees
- (other than an Executive Committee) as it deems appropriate to facilitate the
- activities of the Society, provided that no such Committee shall take actions
- reserved to the Board of Trustees or to the Executive Committee.
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- ARTICLE IV
- NOTICES
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- Section 1. Whenever any notice whatever is required to be given, a
- waiver thereof in writing by the person or persons entitled to such notice,
- whether before or after the time stated therein, shall be deemed equivalent to
- the giving of such notice.
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- Section 2. Attendance of a Trustee at a meeting shall constitute a waiver
- of notice of such meeting except where a Trustee attends a meeting for the
- express purpose of objecting to the transaction of any business because the
- meeting is not lawfully called or convened. Except as otherwise expressly
- required in the Society's Charter or By-Laws, neither the business to be
- transacted at, nor the purpose of, any regular or special meeting of the Board
- of Trustees need be specified in the notice or waiver of notice of such meeting.
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- ARTICLE V
- OFFICERS
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- Section 1. The initial officers of the Society are the President,
- Treasurer and Secretary. Each initial officer shall hold office during the
- Society's Initial Period of Operations, unless at least a majority of the
- members of the Board of Trustees then in office determines that the term
- shall be otherwise. Any vacancy in an officer position shall be filled by
- an individual elected by the affirmative vote of at least a majority of
- the members of the Board of Trustees then in office.
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- Officers shall be selected from among the Regular Individual members of the
- Society.
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- Section 2. The officers of the Society shall, at a minimum, consist of a
- President, a Treasurer and a Secretary. Except as specified in Section 1 of
- this Article, each officer shall be elected for a one-year renewable term by the
- affirmative vote of at least a majority of the members of the Board of Trustees
- then in office. After the Society's Initial Period of Operations, the President
- shall be selected from among the members of the Board of Trustees who have
- been elected by the Regular Individual Members of the Society. A person shall
- not hold more than one office at the same time.
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- Section 3. The Board of Trustees, by the affirmative vote of at least a
- majority of the members of the Board of Trustees then in office, may appoint
- such additional officers as it shall deem necessary.
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- Section 4. The President of the Society, with the approval of the
- affirmative vote of at least a majority of the members of the Board of Trustees
- then in office, shall have authority to appoint an Executive Director of the
- Society, who shall be responsible for the day-to-day conduct of the Society's
- activities.
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- Section 5. The Executive Director of the Society, if one is appointed,
- shall serve ex officio as a non-voting member of the Board of Trustees.
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- Section 6. The officers of the Society shall not receive any compensation
- (apart from reimbursement of expenses) for their services as officers, but this
- shall not preclude reasonable compensation for services rendered to the Society
- by an officer in some other capacity.
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- Section 7. The officers of the Society shall hold office until their
- respective successors are chosen and qualify. Any officer of the Society may be
- removed by the Board of Trustees, by the affirmative vote of at least
- four-fifths of the members of the Board of Trustees then in office, whenever in
- their judgment the best interests of the Society will be served thereby.
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- Section 8. The officers of the Society shall each have such powers and
- duties as generally pertain to their respective offices, as well as such powers
- and duties as from time to time may be conferred by the Board of Trustees or
- by the President of the Society.
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- Section 9. Unless otherwise directed by the Board of Trustees, the
- President of the Society, or in the event of the President's inability to act,
- such other officer as may be designated by the Board or by the President to act
- in the absence of the President, shall have full power and authority on behalf
- of the Society to attend and to act and to vote at any meetings at which the
- Society may have a right to vote. The Board or the President from time to
- time may confer like powers upon any other person or persons.
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- ARTICLE VI
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- MEMBERS
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- Section 1. The Society shall have two classes of members:
- Organizational Members and Individual Members.
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- Section 2. The Society shall have the following categories of
- Organizational Members:
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- (1) Charter Members: The following organizations:
- (a) Corporation for National Research Initiatives
- (b) Educom
- (c) RARE
- (d) Such additional non-profit organizations, not more than
- three in number, as may be approved as Charter Members
- by unanimous vote of the then-existing Charter Members
- and by the affirmative vote of at least four-fifths of the
- members of the Board of Trustees then in office.
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- (2) Regular Organizational Members:
- (a) Each organization which contributes to the Society a total of
- at least $10,000 during the Society's particular fiscal year;
- or, for years subsequent to the first year, such other amount
- as the Board of Trustees may specify for this class of
- member.
- (b) Each organization which is organized in the United States of
- America as a non-profit organization or is similarly
- organized in other countries, or is an agency of a national,
- regional or local government, may be a Regular
- Organizational Member of the Society at a 50% discount in
- annual contribution.
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- (3) Start-up Members: A newly-formed organization may, during the
- first three years of its operation, be a member of the Society upon contributing
- a total of at least $1,000 during the Society's particular fiscal year.
- Founding Member status is not available to an organization which is a Start-up
- Member. The 50% discount does not apply to the Start-up Member rate.
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- Section 3. The Society shall have the following categories of Individual
- Members:
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- (1) Regular Individual Members: Each individual who contributes to the
- Society the sum of $70 during the Society's particular fiscal year; or, for
- years subsequent to the first year, such other amount as the Board of Trustees
- may specify for this class of member.
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- (2) Student Members: Each bona fide full-time student who contributes
- to the Society the sum of $25 during the Society's particular fiscal year; or,
- for years subsequent to the first year, such other amount as the Board of
- Trustees may specify for this class of member. Student Members shall be
- non-voting members of the Society.
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- Section 4. The Society shall have the following special member
- designations:
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- (1) Founding Members: Each organization which contributes to the
- Society a total of at least $20,000 by the end of the first two years of the
- Society's full-scale operations (that is, during the period ending December 31,
- 1993), as long as such organization thereafter continues to be a Regular
- Organizational Member of the Society.
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- (2) Pioneer Members: Each Regular Individual Member and each
- Student Member who joins during the period June 1 - December 31, 1991, shall
- be designated a Pioneer Member and shall retain that designation so long as
- Individual Member status is maintained.
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- Section 5. The Board of Trustees from time to time may establish
- additional classes and categories of members.
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- Section 6. The Society shall have such meetings of its members as
- the Board of Trustees shall from time to time fix.
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- ARTICLE VII
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- MISCELLANEOUS
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- Section 1. The Secretariat function of the Society shall be furnished by
- Corporation for National Research Initiatives during the Society's Initial
- Period of Operations; and thereafter the Secretariat function shall be carried
- on as the Board of Trustees may determine.
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- Section 2. Funds received payable to Internet Society shall be
- maintained by Corporation for National Research Initiatives in a segregated
- account or accounts, and utilized solely for Internet Society purposes.
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- Section 3. Funds contributed or advanced by the Charter Members to
- establish and further the activities of the Society shall be duly recorded and
- shall be subject to reimbursement by the Society if and when the financial
- situation of the Society permits. In the event of the dissolution of the
- Society, any residual Society funds shall be used to reimburse pro rata the
- Charter Members for any such contributions and advances made but not previously
- reimbursed.
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- Section 4. The President is authorized to establish an Advisory Council
- consisting of a representative of each Founding Member and each Regular
- Organizational Member of the Society.
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- Section 5. The Society's fiscal year shall be the calendar year. The
- Society's official monetary unit shall be the United States dollar.
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- Section 6. English shall be the official language of the Society.
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- Section 7. The Society may maintain liaison with other professional
- societies and similar organizations, wherever located, on activities which
- further the objectives of the Society, on such terms as the Board of Trustees
- may approve.
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- ARTICLE VIII
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- AMENDMENTS
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- Section 1. These By-Laws may be altered, amended, or repealed by the
- affirmative vote of at least four-fifths of the members of the Board of Trustees
- then in office, at any meeting of the Board if notice of such proposed action be
- contained in the notice of such meeting; provided, however, that no amendment
- may be made which adversely affects the rights of a Charter Member without
- the unanimous consent of all then-existing Charter Members.
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