<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear Jon:<div><br></div><div>Thankyou for this interesting and stimulating document. I have two general comments:</div><div><br></div><div>1.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>The 'quadrants': Actually I think that there are eight quadrants. The scenarios lack a third dimension which would capture the scale of interactivity between bilateral and multiple communications. To illustrate this concept we have recently receive an EIF study which focusses on collaborative communication in the future Internet. (I have no particular brief for the EIF study and did not participate in its preparation, but it does illustrate this concept quite well.)</div><div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><a href="http://www.eifonline.org/en/articles/digital-world-in-2025/digital-world-in-2025.cfm">http://www.eifonline.org/en/articles/digital-world-in-2025/digital-world-in-2025.cfm</a></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>2.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>With due respect to the vivid imagination of the authors of the ISOC study, I found that it employs too much in-group jargon. In so far as I was personally able to de-crypt what was in their minds, I also felt that the style of writing would unnecessarily restrict the eventual readership and impact of this exercise.</div><div><br></div><div>Just a few thoughts. I trust that others will respond to this discussion.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div><br></div><div>CW</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On 26 Oct 2009, at 16:53, Jon McNerney wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div 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> <!--EndFragment--> </div>_______________________________________________<br>Chapter-delegates mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Chapter-delegates@elists.isoc.org">Chapter-delegates@elists.isoc.org</a><br>http://elists.isoc.org/mailman/listinfo/chapter-delegates<br></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>