https://community.icann.org/download/attachments/52890082/REVISED%20Memo%20o... -James On 17 Jul 2015, at 13:35, Dr Eberhard W Lisse <el@lisse.na<mailto:el@lisse.na>> wrote: Are UAs legal persons? el On 2015-07-17 13:13 , Gregory, Holly wrote: Natural persons (humans) are legal persons Sent with Good (www.good.com<http://www.good.com>) * * ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *From:* accountability-cross-community-bounces@icann.org<mailto:accountability-cross-community-bounces@icann.org> on behalf of Nigel Roberts *Sent:* Friday, July 17, 2015 05:51:22 AM *To:* accountability-cross-community@icann.org<mailto:accountability-cross-community@icann.org> *Subject:* Re: [CCWG-ACCT] Concept of some form of "independent" member Greg I think this is incorrect. I find it hard to imagine a corporation (and, particularly a non-profit corporation) which is required by law to restrict membership to legal persons in this way, that is to *require* members to be legal persons. I cannot believe US law is so fundamentally different here -- members of a corporation may normally be either natural persons or legal persons unless there are explicit restrictions in the Articles, which is a matter of choice, not compulsion. (I can imagine a non-profit CHOOSING to restrict membership to one or the other but I can't imagine any statutory requirement of this nature.) A trade association MIGHT restrict membership to legal persons: e.g. the Association of Incorporated Widget Makers (fictitious) may only allow incorporated makes of widgets; however it would be less unexpected to see non-profits expecting members to be natural persons only (e.g. the American Radio Relay League see http://www.arrl.org/arrl-by-laws). Can you expand on this please? On 17/07/15 09:47, Greg Shatan wrote: hands of the community, and to have these powers as a matter of right. Members must be legal persons. _______________________________________________ Accountability-Cross-Community mailing list Accountability-Cross-Community@icann.org<mailto:Accountability-Cross-Community@icann.org> https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/accountability-cross-community **************************************************************************************************** This e-mail is sent by a law firm and may contain information that is privileged or confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete the e-mail and any attachments and notify us immediately. **************************************************************************************************** _______________________________________________ Accountability-Cross-Community mailing list Accountability-Cross-Community@icann.org https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/accountability-cross-community _______________________________________________ Accountability-Cross-Community mailing list Accountability-Cross-Community@icann.org<mailto:Accountability-Cross-Community@icann.org> https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/accountability-cross-community