Adam:
The reasons are pretty clear, and they were formed not specifically to deal with
ISOC chapters but with all organizations that have multiple departments or
chapters.
The thinking was that a single organization could multiply its influence
unreasonably by having various chapters join. There are, for example, many local
ACM chapters as well as ISOC chapters. Or for that matter, any university has
potentially hundreds of separate departments. Rather than giving, say, Syracuse
University multiple votes by having its computer science dept, its policy school,
and its information school all join as separate "members," or having 30 different
ISOC chapters and ACM chapters join, it was decided that the fairest way to do
this was to have one representative for each organization.
--MM
Adam Peake wrote:
> Would someone please clarify the rule on ISOC Chapter membership, they
> can't join as voting members, right?
>
> What's are the reasons for this.
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