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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:navy'>Dear Constance, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:navy'>Thanks for your message. Are the results of the survey available?. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:navy'>We have a couple of comments regarding chapter involvement and
relationship with local policymakers that I would like to share with this list.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:navy'>Our chapter (ISOC.Ar) experience in dealing with local policymakers
and governmental authorities has been extremely good. Since WISIS, we have
establish a continuous interchange of views and ideas with the different
government offices involved in these issues. In these interchanges we have
faced the following scenario:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:navy'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy'>Many government officers appreciate
opinions and, sometimes, guidance on Internet Governance issues.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:navy'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy'>Usually, guidance is needed in
explaining how the current coordination model works. Who is ICANN, LACNIC, the
NRO, their roles, responsabilities, and institutional framework. Sometimes they
need basic ideas, and many times they ask for more specific and sensitive issues
(i.e. the relationship between ICANN and the local ccTLDs, or even the
management of root servers).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:navy'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy'>We start talking with different
officers in a kind of informal way, and since then, the government start
holding official meetings on relevant matters, and invited ISOC as an expert
opinion.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:navy'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy'>From our perspectives, LAC
governments are more interested in access (connection costs, digital divide, computer
literacy, access in rural areas, etc.), Spam, Privacy and Cybercrime, than
ICANN, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:navy'><span
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy'>They want to know HOW to build on the
existent framework, once they understand how it works.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:navy'><span
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy'>We provide guidance without trying
to impose our ideas (what would be impossible, anyway). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:navy'><span
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy'>A pragmatic approach to governance
issues is usually more productive than dogmatic argumentation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:navy'>I´ll try to summarize our experience. We welcome comments, and also
would like to hear other experiences from this list.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:navy'>Best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:navy'>Sebastian Ricciardi<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:navy'>ISOC.Ar<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=ES style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>De:</span></b><span
lang=ES style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>
chapter-delegates-bounces@elists.isoc.org
[mailto:chapter-delegates-bounces@elists.isoc.org] <b>En nombre de </b>Constance
Bommelaer<br>
<b>Enviado el:</b> Miércoles, 02 de Mayo de 2007 08:59 a.m.<br>
<b>Para:</b> 'Chapter Delegates'<br>
<b>Asunto:</b> [Chapter-delegates] Membership Survey Internet Governance</span><span
lang=ES><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Dear
Chapter delegates,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>We
will soon be launching a survey to all members on Internet governance matters
that is designed to get feedback from the membership on priorities for the
Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Rio in November. We would greatly appreciate
your and your Chapter member responses. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>We
will be following up the survey with a number of events between now and
November and would very much appreciate your thinking as to how we and the
Chapters can best reach policymakers regionally and nationally to address the
Internet governance issues of concern to them. One idea that we are
exploring (and we would appreciate your thoughts on) would be to have an
“ISOC Internet Governance month” in which we could seek to create a
Chapter-wide set of activities comprising meetings with policymakers, workshops
and outreach efforts within a specific time frame, with September being a good
candidate time period. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>More
details to come but would welcome any thoughts back.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Best,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Constance
Bommelaer</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Internet
Society (ISOC)</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Public
Policy Manager</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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