[ncdnhc-discuss] ISOC to bid on .org

[Adam Peake]

ISOC is now controlled by chapters, organizational members (any 
entity that wants to pay a chunk of money to support ISOC -- GLOCOM 
does and has done for 6 or 7 years) and the standards community 
(IAB/IETF I think.)  ISOC's not a trade association, if I thought it 
were it wouldn't get our money.

ISOC's been near bankrupt for years. As I understand it, the recent 
reorganization was about trying to secure a steady supply of money so 
it could do its work. Individual fee-paying members ($25 or $35/year, 
I don't remember the amount offhand) were costing ISOC more in member 
administration and services than their fee covered, so fees were 
dropped and voting rights lost.

Thanks,

Adam



At 11:19 PM -0400 6/3/02, Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law wrote:
>Don, it would be helpful if you could set me straight - one hears so many
>weird things these days.
>
>I've been told that ISOC just rewrote it rules so that individual members
>no longer vote to elect directors, and the voting rights are for sale to
>corporate conributors.
>
>That's false, right?  ISOC is still a members' organization, not
>controled/controllable by a trade group, isn't it?
>
>
>On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, Don Heath wrote:
>
>>  At 07:58 PM 6/3/02 -0400, Milton Mueller wrote:
>>  >At any rate, Given ISOC's status as a quasi-commercial
>>  >trade association, I would think it could not stand on its own
>>  >in this competition; it would need support from other
>>  >organizations. Let's see what happens.
>>
>>  Sorry.  We're not at all a "quasi-commercial trade association."  ISOC is a
>>  501c3 non profit international organization and has a long record of
>>  anything but a commercial trade organization.  But then, I suspect you
>>  really do know that.
>>
>>  Don
>>
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