Fwd: Opening an account for NPOC, NCUC and NCSG in Estonia

[Raoul Plommer]

This is a lot more complicated a topic than I think people are giving
> credit to
>

Thanks for acknowledging that. :)


> No-one has yet spoken about legal liabilities that come from establishing
> a legal entity, and I also don’t believe that anyone has spoken to ICANN
> legal yet (Currently we only exist as an entity within the ICANN bylaws,
> also there are interactions with the Empowered Community responsibilities
> that would need to be incorporated into the establishment of any entity).
>

I can only speak for my experience in Finland, but the responsibilities are
pretty much as follows: 1) Names of people running the board and electing
them every two years or more often 2) At least one official meeting in a
year setting out budget and plan for next year and auditing the account +
possibly selecting the new board.

That's pretty much it.

The CSG has registered as a nonprofit association in the USA and I doubt
that they asked for a permission from ICANN to establish it. You *might* be
right though and I guess we'd really need to ask them. That should be quite
easy to answer to, though.

I'm not sure what Empowered Community responsibilities you mean. I think
our current charters will go a long way as the charter of a new registered
nonprofit entity.

-Raoul
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