Resolutions of Board Meeting No. 83

Resolutions Passed at the Board Meeting No. 83
13-14 November 2010.

Resolution 2010-33: Approval of the minutes of the 82nd meeting of the Board of Trustees, held September 20, 2010.
RESOLVED that the minutes of the 82nd Board meeting of the Internet Society held September 20, 2010 are approved, except for Philip, who abstained because he was not on the call.

Resolution 2010-34: Approval of the 2011 Election Committee.
RESOLVED that Fred Baker and Patrick Vande Walle be appointed as members of the Election Committee chaired by Khaled Koubaa.

Resolution 2010-35: Ratification of electric vote to approve the motion on Signatory Power Registration in Geneva.
RESOLVED that the Board ratifies the electronic vote for the following motion:

RESOLVED that the ISOC Board of Trustees appoints Lynn St.Amour, President and Chief Executive Officer; Gregory M. Kapfer, Chief Financial Officer; and Jon McNerney, Chief Operating Officer as legally authorized signers with individual signatory power for documents concerning the Geneva branch of the Internet Society, within the parameters set forth in ISOC’s Delegation Policy. The Board of Trustees also recognizes that Daniel Karrenberg is no longer Chairman of the Board, and therefore request that he be removed from the list of officials registered with the Geneva Trade Register. ISOC’s Secretary, Scott Bradner, is authorized to sign a resolution to be filed with the Geneva Trade Register.

Resolution 2010-36: Welcome the Rwanda Chapter of the Internet Society
RESOLVED, that the ISOC Board of Trustees warmly welcomes the new Rwanda Chapter of the Internet Society, which was chartered and approved since the last Board meeting

Resolution 2010-37: Approval of the 2011 Nominations Committee.
RESOLVED that John Curran, Vanda Scartezini, Philip Smith, Daniel Karrenberg, Olivier Crepin-Leblond, and Hiroshi Esaki be appointed as members of the 2011 Nominations Committee chaired by Alejandro Pisanty.

Resolution 2010-38: Authorizing a donation to the World Wide Web Consortium (“W3C”) in support of their Organizational evolution.
WHEREAS the Internet Society (“ISOC”) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1992 to provide leadership in Internet related standards, education, and policy. With offices in Washington D.C., USA, and Geneva, Switzerland, it is dedicated to ensuring the open development, evolution and use of the Internet for the benefit of people throughout the world.

WHEREAS the World Wide Web Consortium (“W3C”) is an international community where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards; WHEREAS ISOC’s Board of Trustees at the 76th meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Internet Society resolved to provide financial assistance to W3C in its pursuit of an independent entity or lightweight headquarters operation; WHEREAS ISOC wishes to confirm its support of this organizational evolution for the second year of a three-year period based upon W3C’s report of progress towards such establishment; Be It Resolved, that the ISOC Board of Trustees directs its President and CEO to release an amount of $1 million to W3C and to assist the W3C in its evolution through such means as deemed appropriate, including the provision of staff expertise in fund raising, corporate governance, standards development, and communications; Be It Further Resolved, that the President and CEO of ISOC is hereby authorized, consistent with this motion, to execute such documents as necessary to effect the foregoing, and, as necessary or appropriate, to execute such other documents, correspondence or the like to provide assurances of the commitment of ISOC to the foregoing actions, in line with the principles expressed by the Internet Society Board of Trustees at the Internet Society Board meeting #83 on November 13-14, 2010.

Be it Further Resolved that the final contribution is dependent on significant progress toward self-sustainability.

Resolution 2010-39: Adopting an elections schedule
RESOLVED that the following elections schedule for 2011 is adopted.

Call for Nominations – November 17, 2010

Preliminary Slate Announced – March 11, 2011

Petition Period – March 11-April 11, 2011

Final Slate Announced – April 18, 2011

Election Date – May 27, 2011

Results of Election Announced – June 29, 2011

ISOC AGM – July 30, 2011

Resolution 2010-40: ISOC Boar