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+Network Working Group                             ISOC Board of Trustees
+Request for Comments: 2134                                          ISOC
+Category: Informational                                       April 1997
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+                       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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+ISOC                         Informational                      [Page 1]
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+RFC 2134             ISOC Articles of Incorporation           April 1997
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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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+ISOC                         Informational                      [Page 2]
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+RFC 2134             ISOC Articles of Incorporation           April 1997
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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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+ISOC                         Informational                      [Page 3]
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+RFC 2134             ISOC Articles of Incorporation           April 1997
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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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+ISOC                         Informational                      [Page 4]
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+RFC 2134             ISOC Articles of Incorporation           April 1997
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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
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+2. Security Considerations
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+   Documents of this type do not directly impact the security of the
+   Internet infrastructure or its applications.
+
+3. Author's Address
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+           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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