<div>Dear Lynn :</div>
<div><br>Greetings from Nepal! </div>
<div>Glad to hear the achievements of ISOC. We look forward for more help and contribution for the upcoming year and hope ISOC will always a head in evolution , standardisation and future growth of Internet.</div>
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<div>Wishing ISOC team and chapter delegates a "merry christmas' & a "Happy & Propsporous New Year"</div>
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<div>Best Wishes & Regards,</div>
<div>Eswari Pd. Sharma</div>
<div>President, ISOC Nepal</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 3:06 PM, ISOC Pakistan Chapter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:isoc@isocpk.org">isoc@isocpk.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote">Thanks Lynn:<br><br>We extend and look forward to a very different year and a higher level of involvement of chapters at ISOC. We look forward to more events more engagements and support.<br>
<br>Wishing the ISOC team a Happy New Year<br><br>regards<br><br>Qasim Khan<br><font color="#888888">ISOC Pakistan Chapter</font>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 1:15 AM, Lynn St.Amour <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:st.Amour@isoc.org" target="_blank">st.Amour@isoc.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote">Thanks for an Extraordinary Year of Achievements<br>from Lynn St.Amour, President and CEO of ISOC<br>
<br><br>Dear Members, Friends, and Colleagues,<br><br>The end of 2009 is rapidly approaching - and what a year it has been.<br>The Internet Society continued to prosper in 2009, the results of our<br>work reaching wider and deeper than ever before. So it is a pleasure<br>
to extend my sincere gratitude to all of you whose combined efforts,<br>energy, and dedication have made this such a great year.<br><br>We often use the term "Internet community" and, looking back at the<br>achievements of this year, it is clear that these are truly the result<br>
of a strong, committed community pulling together around shared values<br>and principles.<br><br>It is impossible to list here all of the Internet Society's<br>achievements from such a busy and productive year, but I would like to<br>
single out a few highlights.<br><br>Within the Enabling Access Initiative, we worked closely with Chapters<br>and other local and regional partners to significantly extend our<br>technical and policy capacity building programmes, especially in<br>
Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean. These efforts were aided<br>through a revitalized INET programme with specialized content<br>developed in partnership with local communities, and which reached out<br>successfully to hundreds of participants in each location. This work<br>
advanced our profile and strengthened our message in many high-level<br>forums, such as the OECD, the World Bank, and the ITU. Access<br>continues to be one of the major themes in many of the Chapter and<br>other member projects supported by our grants programmes.<br>
<br>In our InterNetWorks Initiative, a number of new efforts contributed<br>to helping to advance the health of the Internet. ISOC continues to<br>project a strong voice for IPv6 deployment, so it has been pleasing to<br>
see in 2009 that IPv6 is gathering momentum around the world. In an<br>exciting new development this year, ISOC launched a series of topical,<br>lively panel discussions during IETF meetings. The first on IPv6<br>deployment attracted much international attention. Together with the<br>
subsequent panels on DNS security and bandwidth management issues,<br>these events have set the scene for what will be an important ongoing<br>activity, helping to advance the health of the Internet and promoting<br>the role of the IETF.<br>
<br>ISOC's Trust and Identity Initiative benefited from two important new<br>staff additions in 2009, increasing our involvement in many important<br>new initiatives and partnerships in both the Trust and Identity<br>
spaces. One of the most significant is the Kantara Initiative<br>(formerly the Liberty Alliance), in which ISOC has developed a strong<br>voice and leadership role.<br><br>Throughout all of our work in 2009, we strived to promote better<br>
understanding of the nature and importance of the Internet Model of<br>development and the relationships of the many organizations and<br>functions making up the Internet Ecosystem. These efforts have clearly<br>paid off and we were very pleased to see many of our messages<br>
reflected in the words and actions of many others in regional,<br>national, and global discussions. In 2009, ISOC's key messages were<br>more frequently cited in media reports and reflected in statements by<br>policy makers around the world than ever before.<br>
<br>Additions to ISOC's staff in 2009 helped us make big strides in<br>producing better publications and communications resources, delivering<br>important information and services in more languages, and providing<br>much greater support for events where Chapters, Individual and<br>
Organization Members, and others come together in support of our<br>common mission. The successful Sphere project continues to be an<br>excellent process for enabling the full potential of the Chapter<br>network. And we were very pleased to recently launch the first phase<br>
of our new Association Management System as a much improved tool for<br>Chapter and member interaction.<br><br>This year was one of ISOC's most significant ever in terms of global<br>engagement. With highly visible roles in the EU, ITU, OECD, IGF, and<br>
many other major policy and technical forums, it is clear that ISOC's<br>reputation as a trusted and authoritative voice on critical Internet<br>issues continues to grow stronger. We again were honoured to<br>coordinate the participation of other organizations, especially in the<br>
Internet Technical Advisory Committee to the OECD and the Internet<br>Pavilion at the ITU's Telecom World 2009. At the latter event, ISOC<br>announced the Next Generation Leaders programme, a new activity<br>starting in 2010 to build on our past successes such as the Network<br>
Training Workshops (NTW's), as well as our current work in Fellowships<br>to the IETF, and Ambassadorships to the IGF and other forums, adding<br>coursework and mentoring to help accelerate the careers of the young<br>
practitioners who will lead the Internet into its next generation.<br><br>Finally, the Internet Society is finishing the year on a high note,<br>having just announced our support for the World Wide Web Consortium<br>(W3C), to help it evolve as a more agile, inclusive, and flexible<br>
organization, as it creates and promotes open standards.<br><br>There is so much more I could mention here - it really has been an<br>extraordinary year. As 2009 draws to a close, it is important to<br>recognize and thank all those who contributed to such a successful<br>
year. So, thank you to all the Individual and Organization Members,<br>the Chapters, and all our other supporters and partners for their<br>efforts and support as we worked together in pursuit of our common<br>goals. Thank you to our friends in the Internet Engineering Task<br>
Force (IETF) and the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) without whose<br>values and work, the Internet, as we know it, would not exist. And,<br>of course, thank you to the ISOC staff, the ISOC Board of Trustees,<br>the Organization Member Advisory Council and the Public Interest<br>
Registry (PIR), for their efforts and support. To all of you, your<br>support is vital to helping the Internet improve the lives of people<br>everywhere.<br><br>Finally, I'd like to extend my very best wishes to you and your<br>
families during the holiday season, as we couldn't do what we do<br>without their support. I look forward to working together with all of<br>you for a prosperous and successful 2010.<br><br>Warmest regards,<br>Lynn<br>
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