Resolutions of Board Meeting No. 163

Resolutions Passed at the Board Meeting No. 163
26-27 March 2022

Resolution 2022-05: Appoint members of the PIR Board
RESOLVED, that the ISOC Board of Trustees appoints the following individuals to the Board of Directors of the Public Interest Registry for three-year terms commencing with the PIR Board’s 2022 mid-year meeting:

• Lena Beck Rørvig
• Keith Davidson
• Mike Silber

FURTHER RESOLVED, that the ISOC Board reappoints Jonathon Nevett as a non-voting member of the Board of Directors of the Public Interest Registry for a term ending at the PIR Board’s 2023 mid-year meeting.

Resolution 2022-06: Welcome new Chapters
RESOLVED, that the ISOC Board of Trustees warmly welcomes the new Internet Society Romania Chapter and the new Internet Society Suriname Chapter.

Resolution 2022-07: Welcome new Special Interest Groups
RESOLVED, that the ISOC Board of Trustees warmly welcomes the new Special Interest Groups for Affordable Internet Access, Cybersecurity, Internet for Education, Internet of Things, and Online Safety.

Resolution 2022-08: Welcome new Standing Groups
RESOLVED, that the ISOC Board of Trustees warmly welcomes the new Standing Groups for Accessibility, Gender and Youth.

Resolution 2022-09: Accept the PIR Nominations Committee Report
RESOLVED, that the final report of the 2021-2022 PIR Nominations Committee is accepted.

Resolution 2022-10: Accept the Compensation Committee Report
RESOLVED, that the final report of the 2021-2022 Compensation Committee is accepted.

Resolution 2022-11: Approve 2022 funding for the Network Startup Resource Center
WHEREAS the Network Startup Resource Center (“NSRC”) is a non-profit center operated at the University of Oregon that helps develop national and regional Internet infrastructure for collaborative research, education, and international partnerships; and
WHEREAS both the Internet Society (“ISOC”) and the NSRC share a vision of an open, globally-connected, secure and trustworthy Internet for everyone; and
WHEREAS ISOC and the NSRC have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to provide ISOC grant funding to the University of Oregon Foundation to support the NSRC for a three-year period which began in 2021,
BE IT RESOLVED, that pursuant to the terms of the Memorandum of Understanding, the ISOC Board of Trustees authorizes a gift to the NSRC in the amount of $600,000 to be made in 2022; and
FURTHER RESOLVED, that any officer or trustee of ISOC is authorized for and on behalf of ISOC to do all such acts reasonably required in connection with the foregoing resolution, including the authority to execute and deliver documents on behalf of ISOC.

Resolution 2022-12: Approve an update to the Charter of the Internet Architecture Board
WHEREAS the Internet Architecture Board (“IAB”) is constituted, in part, as a consultative committee of the Internet Society (ISOC) Board of Trustees; and
WHEREAS the IAB has constituted the RFC Editor Future Development Program in order to foster discussion and consensus on potential changes to the RFC Editor model; and
WHEREAS the results of that program’s deliberation include an update to the Charter of the IAB and an update to the appeals procedures relevant to the IAB; and
WHEREAS the ISOC Board of Trustees has reviewed this update,
RESOLVED, that the ISOC board approves of the update to the Charter of the IAB contained in draft-carpenter-rfced-iab-charter.