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

[Stephanie Perrin]

Thanks Remmy, looking forward to seeing something on ABRs!

cheers Stephanie

On 2019-01-08 11:52, Remmy Nweke wrote:
> Hi Stephanie
> I will rather think that getting this account settled once and for 
> all, especially the interests are there and people are volunteering to 
> work along to ensure it worked for posterity.
> I will equally suggest since there are uncertainty over Estonia e-ID, 
> we can take up Sam's option in Canada. VIP is that our EC can access 
> the fund when necessary and signatories can be changed also. For me 
> this matters a lot.
> I thought the issue of ABR is already in the works as FC is tinkering 
> on template for that to be shared on or before weekend to fast track 
> that aspect including the assessment afterwards.
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> On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 3:26 PM Stephanie Perrin 
> <stephanie.perrin at mail.utoronto.ca 
> <mailto:stephanie.perrin at mail.utoronto.ca>> wrote:
>
>     SO.....rather than argue endlessly about where to open a bank
>     account that has marginal utility given we have no money, could
>     somebody please turn their minds to the ABRs and volunteer to
>     think up what we need money for, and draft them?  Also comments on
>     the five year plan, so we can see if our thin dribble of travel
>     funding is going to be cut, depending on future revenue
>     calculations?  Hands up, who has read it?  I am sorry folks, I do
>     take this matter rather seriously, but we have bigger fish to fry
>     at the moment.  This is not my biggest priority, settling on where
>     to open an account.
>
>     cheers Stephanie
>
>     On 2019-01-08 04:01, Raoul Plommer wrote:
>>
>>
>>         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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