Re: ISOC Trustees

["Vinton G. Cerf" <[e-mail]>]

Eric,

the Internet Society didn't get formally started until CNRI, RARE and
EDUCOM agreed to undertake to organize it. The charter was signed
by representatives of the charter organizations December 16, 1991
and their commitment to provide resources made it possible to 
take the next steps (offering individual memberships, seeking corporate
sponsorship in the form of founding and organizational memberships,
identifying an initial and much-expanded international board of trustees,
and so on).

Vint

ISOC-CHARTER                                                    
12/16/91

                   CHARTER OF INTERNET SOCIETY


     1.   Name
          
          The name of the Society is Internet Society ("the
Society").

     2.   Purposes

          The Society has been organized to be a nonprofit
organization which shall be operated exclusively for the following
educational, charitable and scientific purposes:

          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;  

          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.  

The Society shall take such actions as may be necessary or
convenient to effect any or all of the purposes for which the
Society is organized.

     3.   Board of Trustees

          The initial Board of Trustees of the Society are the
following individuals, namely, Juergen Harms, Robert E. Kahn and
Kenneth M. King.

     4.   Restrictions

          No part of the net earnings of the Society, if any, shall
inure to the benefit of, or be distributable to, any of the
Trustees or officers of the Society, or any other person, except
that the Society shall be authorized and empowered to pay
reasonable compensation for services rendered.  No substantial part
of the activities of the Society shall be the carrying on of
propaganda, or otherwise attempting, to influence legislation.  The
Society 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.

     5.   Dissolution

          Upon any liquidation, dissolution, or winding up of the
Society, 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 Society (if any) shall be
distributed exclusively for such educational, charitable and
scientific purposes as the Board of Trustees (or such other persons
as may be in charge of liquidation) shall determine.

     6.   Amendment

          The Charter 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
Article 4 or of Article 5 above or of this Article 6.

     This Charter has been adopted by the initial Board of Trustees
of the Society.


                                                             
                                   Juergen Harms   
                                        December 24, 1991

                                                              
                                   Robert E. Kahn  
                                        December 16, 1991

                                                              
                                   Kenneth M. King 
                                        December 16, 1991