Re: [wg-review] Constituencies, 1 governance and legality

[Eric Dierker <ERIC@HI-TEK.COM>]

Mr. Crispin,

Even non-profits have to be owned.  Who owns this corporation?  Certainly it is
transferable can I buy some of it? Since we are working on the General Assembly
topic at the moment, does the General Assembly have any ownership rights?

Sincerely,

Sotiropoulos wrote:

> 1/31/01 3:51:41 PM, Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com> wrote:
>
> >As far as your actions are concerned it really doesn't make any
> >difference at all whether your interpretation of the bylaws is correct.
> >The intent of the corporation in approving the membership provisions was
> >absolutely clear, and you know what it is: the corporation is not have
> >corporate members.  If you think there is a problem with those
> >provisions, then your appropriate action as a director would be to take
> >that up with corporate counsel and fix the provisions, and not to
> >deliberately broadcast a corporate legal vulnerability to the world.
>
> So now it is a legal "vulnerability", huh Kent?  Methinks, you change your
> tune faster than a weathervane spins in a tempest.  Don't bother venting on
> Mr. Auerbach, I figured it all out myself Kent.
>
> >Your argument that ICANN could avoid that liability by accepting
> >corporate members is specious -- the directors have already decided,
> >with good reason, that having corporate members is not in the best
> >interests of the corporation.
>
> Oh really?  What is their "good reason" Kent?
>
> Sotiris Sotiropoulos
>           Hermes Network, Inc.
>
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