Re: [Iasa20] IASA 2.0 outcome properties

[Stephen Farrell <[e-mail]>]

On 24/04/17 02:18, Alissa Cooper wrote:
> One observation about your formulation here, since you’ve used it a
> couple of times: incorporation is distinct from membership. That is,
> there are a number of models in which an organization can incorporate
> that do not involve membership of any sort; a membership corporation
> is just one of many kinds of corporate structure. I appreciate that
> people see downsides (and upsides) to both incorporation and
> membership, but I think in this discussion it would be useful to
> treat them separately, since we may end up drawing different
> conclusions about each.

Agreed - as we tease out these issues, incorporation and membership
are separate things. However, there are roads we might follow that
lead to one or both of those happening without them being "the plan"
and I do think we ought avoid such roads except where we've put up
very large and glaring signposts ahead of time, and where the
community have clearly consciously chosen to take that danger-sign
laden road.

Cheers,
S.