<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear Tommi,<div><br></div><div>I've been talking about ISOC Belgium's participation in this structure for several years. Today, this official structure within the Belgian government still is alive, but not very kicking.</div><div>In June 2010, before and during the elections period in Belgium, ISOC Belgium has proposed a 5 point program to the Belgium gov covering at least 2 aspects of the observatory.</div><div>We are actively participating (partly leading) ongoing round tables with different players and stakeholders on internet issues, basically oriented to define possible new regulation and governance rules in Belgium. Todays talks are more specifically with regard to domain name and cross borders problems on internet transactions.</div><div> </div><div>I'm, of course, willing to participate actively in your project proposal, as we have already 6 years of experience in observatory matters related to policy and governance of the internet.</div><div>I will be in San Francisco on Saturday, so eventually we could have a chat already, as I have booked arrangements on Sunday evening crossing the ISOC meetings.</div><div><br></div><div>See you soon in SF.</div><div><br><div>Rudi Vansnick<br><br></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">——————————————— Internet Society Belgium —————————————————<br>President - CEO Tel +32/(0)9/329.39.16<br><a href="mailto:rudi.vansnick@isoc.be">rudi.vansnick@isoc.be</a> Mobile +32/(0)475/28.16.32<br>Dendermondesteenweg 143 B-9070 Destelbergen BELGIUM<br><a href="http://www.internetsociety.be">www.internetsociety.be</a> "The Internet is for everyone"<br>———————————————————————————————————————————————————————————</span></font></div><br>Op 11-mrt-2011 10, om 02:41 heeft Tommi Karttaavi het volgende geschreven:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Joly,<br><br>Thanks for pointing this out, I'll look into it. There also seems to be an "Internet Rights Observatory" (<a href="http://www.internet-observatory.be">http://www.internet-observatory.be</a>) but I don't know if it is currently active (anybody know anything about it?).<br><br>We may want to call it the "Internet Public Policy Observatory" or something like that to avoid confusion. But let's burn that bridge when we get to it :)<br><br>I have however already registered <a href="http://internetobservatory.org">internetobservatory.org</a>, so here's hoping we don't need to change that...<br><br>You can go and take a look at it if you like. Currently it is a very basic Drupal site with just enough structure and content to give some idea of what it could be (I spent all of one hour yesterday setting it up).<br><br>Regards,<br><br>Tommi<br><br>On 10.3.2011 20:22, Joly MacFie wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">"Internet Observatory" was the name of an exhaustive survey carried out<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">by Arbor Networks in 2009<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://www.nanog.org/meetings/nanog47/abstracts.php?pt=MTQ1MyZuYW5vZzQ3&nm=nanog47">http://www.nanog.org/meetings/nanog47/abstracts.php?pt=MTQ1MyZuYW5vZzQ3&nm=nanog47</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><<a href="http://www.nanog.org/meetings/nanog47/abstracts.php?pt=MTQ1MyZuYW5vZzQ3&nm=nanog47">http://www.nanog.org/meetings/nanog47/abstracts.php?pt=MTQ1MyZuYW5vZzQ3&nm=nanog47</a>><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Not that I think it will be serious conflict, but to ensure no confusion<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">you might want to clear it with them that they don't have a similar<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">project underway now.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">j<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 3:30 AM, Tommi Karttaavi<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><<a href="mailto:tommi.karttaavi@isoc.fi">tommi.karttaavi@isoc.fi</a> <<a href="mailto:tommi.karttaavi@isoc.fi">mailto:tommi.karttaavi@isoc.fi</a>>> wrote:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> Dear all,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> I would like to introduce an agenda item I asked Sabrina to add to<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> the agenda a few days ago. 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