ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
OF
INTERNET SOCIETY
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;
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.
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
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
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