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On 11/12/2012 04:47 PM, Aaron J. Angel wrote:
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> On 11/12/2012 04:20 PM, mike wrote:
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>>>>> If Open Nic is a non-organisation, a kind of anarchistic
>>>>> group that does formally not exist (no legal body) and
>>>>> where we do not know the decision procedure, it is more
>>>>> difficult to cooperate.
>> 
>> Unless someone can come up with a better description, the best 
>> definition that I have come to understand is that OpenNIC, as it 
>> stands, is a "Voluntary Association" style of a "Collective".
>> Such entities have well established and well understood legal
>> standing.
> 
> That may be about as close as you can get, although the vocabulary
> may be different depending on location.  Well-established and 
> well-understood, I might dispute, considering that laws differ
> between various countries, states, provinces, cities, etc., and
> OpenNIC doesn't have a 'home' in that respect.
> 

Yeah, I guess it's not really *that* well understood, there's only
about a thousand books on the subject, for instance:

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