<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><!--StartFragment--><p class="MsoNormal">Dear Colleagues:</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB">Recently, senior
staff at the Internet Society engaged in a scenario planning exercise to reveal
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">plausible</i> courses of events that
could impact the health of the Internet in the future. The results of the scenario
planning exercise were subsequently reviewed with the Internet Society Board of
Trustees.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:ArialMT;
mso-bidi-font-family:ArialMT;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Scenario
planning is a methodology used widely in business, and increasingly in other
sectors, to allow organizations to anticipate </span><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:Arial-ItalicMT;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial-ItalicMT;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">possible </span></i><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:ArialMT;mso-bidi-font-family:ArialMT;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">futures in an environment
of great uncertainty. Scenario planning is neither blue-sky guesswork nor
statistical analysis. </span><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Arial-ItalicMT;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial-ItalicMT;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">It is a structured process to help organizations
break free from ties to “the official future” and to consider other possibilities
they may confront over the longer term.</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB">The result from
ISOC’s own scenario planning process is four scenarios – or stories – that </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:ArialMT;mso-bidi-font-family:ArialMT;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">are intended to reveal </span><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial-ItalicMT;mso-bidi-font-family:
Arial-ItalicMT;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">plausible </span></i><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:ArialMT;mso-bidi-font-family:ArialMT;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">courses of events, not probable
ones. While they are imaginative, they are intended to make the organization aware
of possibilities that could have an impact.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:
Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Scenarios always
start from a question about the future. In this case, the focal question for
the exercise was: "Will the world embrace or resist the open Internet
model?" with a second-level question to narrow the field: "What model
will be more successful? Command and control? Or, distributed and
decentralized?"</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB">We would like to
engage with you in evaluating these stories, which can be found at: </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://www.isoc.org/scenarios">http://www.isoc.org/scenarios</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB">I would very
much like to encourage discussion and feedback by all members of the Internet
Society through the comment features available on the scenario web pages. You
should also feel free to share these scenarios with anyone interested in the
future of the Internet.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB">We will incorporate
your input and ideas on the substance of these scenarios in our planning and
operational activities. In addition, while incorporating your insights, our
Communications team will build, with chapters and members, an external outreach
campaign to partners and the public at large that will allow us to continue to evaluate
these scenarios on a regular basis, to raise awareness, and to promote courses
of action as various parts of these scenarios play out over time.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB">We look forward
to hearing from and working with you on this important initiative to support
the health of the Internet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Best Regards,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> Jon</o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Jon McNerney</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Chief Operating Officer</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Internet Society</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:ArialMT;mso-bidi-font-family:ArialMT;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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