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On Mon, 2012-11-12 at 19:33 -0600, mike wrote:
> On 11/12/2012 08:11 PM, netadmin wrote:
> > How would a body with no legal structure be a part of any court 
> > proceedings as such?
> 
> You don't need a "legal structure" whatever that means, to be a part
> of a court proceeding, all you need is a subpoena.

OpenNIC is a gather of natural persons (from a legal standpoint), and
together does not form any sorts of legal personality. 

>  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.

What would the labels "Voluntary Association" style of a "Collective"
matter in a court of law? Wouldn't we have to defend/prosecute as
natural persons? What kind of legal standing would such entities have,
in a nutshell ?

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