Hello Fred Baker and Martin,<br><br>I looked at the INET page, it looks like a wonderful event, which was unfortunately discontinued as poined out Fred, due to the macro economic environmental changes of the times.<br><br>
Had ISOC continued with this as an annual event, ISOC would have emerged far, far more stronger.<br><br>I think we should bring it back. This should be a grand event, carefully planned, should bring in Internet professionals from the world over, the IT industry, government and research groups, should be a huge event, for four days as INET 2001 with one or two hours of concurrent meetings happening on the sidelines for ISOC insiders.<br>
<br>Can ISOC's Board and Staff take a look at this again? If you give us the initial encouragement, we can organize this event in Bangalore or Goa, India, with a local participation of at least 3000 people, not counting overseas participation. Could be an ISOC global, broadly adminstered by ISOC Global or by a committee of chapter delegates from worldwide, actively organized by us as the local chapter.<br>
<br>Say yes, and we will draw up a concept and an overall plan for the first of the new series of INET annual conferences....<br><br>Sivasubramanian M<br>ISOC India Chennai<br><a href="http://www.isocindiachennai.in">www.isocindiachennai.in</a><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 7:09 PM, Fred Baker <<a href="mailto:fred@cisco.com">fred@cisco.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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On May 13, 2008, at 7:14 AM, Sivasubramanian Muthusamy wrote:<br>
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What were INET conferences like ? Was this an ISOC event that brought together everyone ?<br>
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It tried to. Attendance fell off quite a bit when the tech bubble burst, and it was finally discontinued due to the financial liabilities. For example, INET 2004 in Barcelona was done with a partner, and could really only say that it added 100 people to the partner's existing conference.<br>
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