RFC 2134 (rfc2134) - Page 1 of 5
Articles of Incorporation of Internet Society
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Network Working Group ISOC Board of Trustees
Request for Comments: 2134 ISOC
Category: Informational April 1997
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
OF
INTERNET SOCIETY
Status of this Memo
This memo provides information for the Internet community. This memo
does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of
this memo is unlimited.
Abstract
These are the articles of incorporation of the Internet Society.
They are published for the information of the IETF community at the
request of the poisson working group.
1. ISOC articles of incorporation
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;
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