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<div>We have interpreted these rules to allow someone to be both an individual member and represent an organizational member. But we may want to re-think that policy in the future.</div><div><br></div><div>We have not allowed a person to represent more than one organization however.</div><div><br></div><div>Hope that clarifies.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Robin</div><div><br></div><br><div><div>On Mar 14, 2013, at 8:34 AM, Brenden Kuerbis wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 3:34 AM, Tapani Tarvainen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ncuc@tapani.tarvainen.info" target="_blank">ncuc@tapani.tarvainen.info</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> On Mar 13 11:27, Brenden Kuerbis (<a href="mailto:bkuerbis@internetgovernance.org">bkuerbis@internetgovernance.org</a>) wrote:<br> <br> > > Half a dozen people (including me [Tapani]) are listed as both<br> <div class="im">> > individual members and organization representatives.<br> <br> > That shouldn't be the case. Should be one or the other.<br> <br> </div>Really? I can't see such a rule in the charter, could<br> you please point it to me? </blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div>Sorry, I misread your statement. Nothing prevents this in the charter.</div><div><br></div><div>-- B</div><div><br></div></div><div><br></div> <div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <br> If that is indeed the case, I have been violating the<br> charter and would have to either resign from NCUC myself<br> or ask Effi to appoint another representative,<br> and then I'd apparently have to resign from the EC as well.<br> ("If an Official Representative holds an elective office in the NCUC,<br> Members cannot change their Official Representative until the<br> individual's term of office is completed." Charter III D)<br> <br> As I said, however, I can't see such a rule in the charter,<br> nor do I think it would be a good idea to disqualify all<br> individual members from representing their organizations, too<br> (whereas disallowing same person to represent two organizations<br> would make sense to me, but I don't see such a rule there either).<br> But I stand ready to be corrected, I've been wrong before. </blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <br> Incidentally, it would seem your being in the EC<br> earlier was also a violation of the charter<br> as only Official Representatives are allowed,<br> not Additional Representatives (IV B 3), or did<br> you and Milton formally swap roles for that year?<br> <br> Yeah, we do need to revise the charter. :-)<br> <span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br> --<br> Tapani Tarvainen<br> <br> </font></span></blockquote></div><br></blockquote></div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div>IP JUSTICE</div><div>Robin Gross, Executive Director</div><div>1192 Haight Street, San Francisco, CA 94117 USA</div><div>p: +1-415-553-6261 f: +1-415-462-6451</div><div>w: <a href="http://www.ipjustice.org">http://www.ipjustice.org</a> e: <a href="mailto:robin@ipjustice.org">robin@ipjustice.org</a></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></body></html>