Dear Veni Makovski and others,<br>
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This as a new thread of to continue the discussions at the thread "ISOC
Election Results" appear focussed as a discussion. Maye Diop is quite
right in cautioning us that we should not see INET as an event to
replace the IGF. <span id="_user_mayediop@gmail.com" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);"><br>
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IGF as a UN inititiave may extend beyond 2010, so there is no reason for us to wait till 2010 for the next INET. <br>
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INET can happen as soon as we can organize it. We may require 6
months to plan and organize the INET or atmost 9 months if we decide. <br>
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INET can do wonders for ISOC in working towards its mission, if
organized well, perhaps with participation from related organizations
such as ICANN, IETF and W3.<br>
<br>
Sivasubramanian Muthusamy<br>
ISOC India Chennai <br>
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</span><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/20/08, <b class="gmail_sendername"><a href="mailto:borka@e5.ijs.si" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">borka@e5.ijs.si</a></b> <<a href="mailto:borka@e5.ijs.si" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">borka@e5.ijs.si</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi,<br> <br> The Veni idea is good if the basic content of the INET<br> conferences is being preserved.<br> I attended almost all<br> INET conferences from their beginning (late eighties) and that one<br> in Kobe (1992) when ISOC was set up as a Society.<br>
<br> Main attraction of INET conferences was the content that<br> addressed the "development of Internet" in all<br> aspects: technology, society and end users.<br> Governance was one of the topics but not so much<br>
exposed. We discussed more the most relevant<br> topics for Internet further development and the<br> new technology solutions.<br> <br> In planning a new INET conference we should not<br> try to replace someone else event(s), e.g. IGF<br>
or WSIS (influenced by governments) but we need<br> to offer new content - including all good topics<br> that attracted so many people on the past INET conferences.<br> These conferences were the main place where all<br>
people that worked on the Internet development<br> met to discuss important issues and listen to each other.<br> <br> Now, with the tremendous change in network<br> technology and the call(s) for new concepts<br> of Internet we may have another challenging topic(s)<br>
to attract relevant and interested people.<br> So, Veni idea is not to be thrown away. Maybe it<br> should be elaborated more deeply and if<br> substantial content is found then the organization<br> could be launched for year 2011.<br>
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