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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif" size="4">Dear Colleagues in ISOC,<br>
</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif" size="4">Part
of the present discussions about draft new Bylaws has also
touched on<font color="#000000">
“standards of performance” </font><font color="#000000">- and
their introduction seemed to be defended as if there was a
general
objection against this effort to define </font><font
color="#000000">how
to</font><font color="#000000"> compare what is with what
should be.</font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif" size="4"><font color="#000000">I
understood that there was only reluctance against the
introduction of</font><font color="#000000">
“standards of performance” </font><font color="#000000">if
they
would be only an instrument to monitor the performance of
Chapters
(and this without clarity about the criteria to be used, and
who
would be authorized to use these criteria for monitoring a
Chapter,
and there was yet no provision for an appeal procedure in case
a
Chapter is not convinced that the</font><font color="#000000">ir</font><font
color="#000000">
performance was evaluated properly). </font></font>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif" size="4"><font color="#000000">When
I raise the question of additional sectors of ISOC to be
monitored
for </font><font color="#000000">“standards of performance” </font><font
color="#000000">I
do this not only in general terms – “saying there must be
mutuality” or something. I would like to raise this question
considering </font><font color="#000000">some of </font><font
color="#000000">our
</font><font color="#000000">specific </font><font
color="#000000">experience</font><font color="#000000">s</font><font
color="#000000">
during the two years of our operation. </font><font
color="#000000">T</font><font color="#000000">he
ISOC Bylaws discussion is an </font><font color="#000000">appropriate</font><font
color="#000000">
opportunity to ask these questions now – maybe there will be a
wider </font><font color="#000000">consensus</font><font
color="#000000">
to extend the question of </font><font color="#000000">“standards
of
performance” </font><font color="#000000">beyond Chapters.</font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif" size="4"><font color="#000000">What
about the performance of other instruments of ISOC? </font></font>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif" size="4">What
about the role of the Regional Offices? According to the
22.8.2012
ISOC News Release, “<span style="font-weight: normal">The
Internet
Society is a global organization, at the heart of which are
our
Regional Bureaus,” </span><span style="font-weight: normal">quoting
</span><span style="font-weight: normal">Walda Roseman, </span><span
style="font-weight: normal">the
</span><span style="font-weight: normal">Chief Operating Officer
of
the Internet Society. </span><span style="font-weight:
normal">But
during the two years of our existence we had not received even
ONE
single e-mail from the ISOC Asia Pacific Regional Office
responding
to our difficult situation. </span></font>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif" size="4"><span style="font-weight: normal">T</span><span
style="font-weight: normal">he
ISOC </span><span style="font-weight: normal">web</span><span
style="font-weight: normal">site
about the Asia Pacific </span><span style="font-weight:
normal">O</span><span style="font-weight: normal">ffice
says that it “</span>oversees projects, initiatives and
activities
across the Internet Society's functional and programmatic areas
in
the Asia and Pacific region, including Public Policy, Capacity
Building and Internet Standards and Technology” and it “has
worked extensively with the Asia-Pacific Internet community.”-
At
the launch the new office on 14.5.2012, Lynn St. Amour, our ISOC
CEO,
was quoted to have “<span style="font-weight: normal">explained
the
significance of the opening of the regional office in
Singapore as an
important step in providing support and visibility to the work
the
Internet Society has done and its on-going contribution to the
region’s development.” </span><span style="font-weight:
normal">-
“</span>The Asia-Pacific region represents 26% (the largest)
of the
current overall individual membership of the Internet Society.”</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif" size="4">I
have no information to doubt this. I can only say we have not
been
touched at all by all these activities.</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif" size="4">And
when we had the first visit from the AsiaPacific Regional Office
towards the end of last month, after 5 weeks of negotiations, we
could not get an agreement that our situation and our problems
would
be discussed with our membership, but we should only make
preparations “to enable me to use my powerpoint slides and
present
the global/AsiaPacific activities and plans, and no other.”</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif" size="4">The
presentation contained even one almost empty slide - and the
next slide was quickly called up - </font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="4"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="4">saying only</font>:</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif" size="4">= = =<br>
</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; line-height: 90%;
text-decoration: none" align="LEFT">
<font color="#0033a0" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
size="4"><span style="text-decoration: none"><font
color="#3333cc"><span style="text-decoration: none"><span
style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
normal"><span style="text-decoration: none">3.Human
Rights</span></span></span></span></font></span></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight:
normal; line-height: 90%; text-decoration: none" align="LEFT">
<font color="#3333cc" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
size="4"><span style="text-decoration: none"><font
color="#000000">A
new area for us since 2011.</font></span></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight:
normal; line-height: 90%; text-decoration: none" align="LEFT">
<font color="#3333cc" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
size="4"><span style="text-decoration: none"><font
color="#000000">Supports
the UN Declaration on Human</font><font color="#000000">
Rights and
rights to freedom of expression.</font></span></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight:
normal; line-height: 90%; text-decoration: none" align="LEFT">
<font color="#3333cc" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
size="4"><span style="text-decoration: none"><font
color="#000000">= = =<br>
</font></span></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight:
normal; line-height: 90%; text-decoration: none" align="LEFT">
<font color="#3333cc" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
size="4"><span style="text-decoration: none"><font
color="#000000">For
us not a new area – as we had raised this also in previous
communication.</font></span></font></font><u><font
color="#0033a0" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
size="4"><span style="text-decoration: none"><font
color="#000000"><span style="text-decoration: none"><span
style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
normal"><span style="text-decoration: none"></span></span></span></span></font></span></font></font></u>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font
size="4"><font color="#000000">So
we ask: What is not only the place of Chapters in ISOC,
but how does
ISOC see the Regional Offices, "at the heart of the
organization,"
relating to the Chapters?</font></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font
size="4"><font color="#000000">And
what is the role of individual membership in ISOC, when it
is
announced that </font><font color="#000000">the</font><font
color="#000000">
“Asia-Pacific region represents 26% (the largest) of the
current
overall individual membership of the Internet Society.” </font><font
color="#000000">Do
these 25% of the whole membe</font><font color="#000000">r</font><font
color="#000000">ship
get a vo</font><font color="#000000">i</font><font
color="#000000">ce
in ISOC?</font></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font
size="4"><font color="#000000">Last
week</font><font color="#000000"> we received mail from
the
Asia-Pacific Regional Office initiating discussion “to
campaign for
more membership at this period (before year end)...
developing
strategies for marketing and campaigning for APAC region.”</font></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font
size="4"><font color="#000000"><span style="text-decoration:
none"><span style="font-style: normal"><span
style="font-weight: normal"><span
style="text-decoration: none">What
is the role of individual membership? </span></span></span></span></font><font
color="#000000"><span style="text-decoration: none"><span
style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
normal"><span style="text-decoration: none">Our
Chapter has been reluctant to distribute fl</span></span></span></span></font><font
color="#000000"><span style="text-decoration: none"><span
style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
normal"><span style="text-decoration: none">i</span></span></span></span></font><font
color="#000000"><span style="text-decoration: none"><span
style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
normal"><span style="text-decoration: none">ers
at the </span></span></span></span></font><font
color="#000000"><span style="text-decoration: none"><span
style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
normal"><span style="text-decoration: none">meetings
of </span></span></span></span></font><font
color="#000000"><span style="text-decoration: none"><span
style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
normal"><span style="text-decoration: none">various
Internet user related organizations in the
country, just to get more
members. <br>
</span></span></span></span></font></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font
size="4"><font color="#000000"><span style="text-decoration:
none"><span style="font-style: normal"><span
style="font-weight: normal"><span
style="text-decoration: none">As a result of the
fact that we could not get attention </span></span></span></span></font><font
color="#000000"><span style="text-decoration: none"><span
style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
normal"><span style="text-decoration: none">by
ISOC</span></span></span></span></font><font
color="#000000"><span style="text-decoration: none"><span
style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
normal"><span style="text-decoration: none"> for our
very specific legal problems, in our context, part
of our
membership questioned, during our Annual General
Meeting on
15.9.2012, the value of our Chapter being a member
of the Internet
Society. Surely there is no interest in a
“marketing campaign,”
while our members expressed a commitment to work
towards creating
wider awareness and engagement in view of the
increasing concerns
about the way in which the freedom of expression –
in the field of
the use of the Internet – is becoming a more and
more serious issue. This will, of course, not
translate in</span></span></span></span></font><font
color="#000000"><span style="text-decoration: none"><span
style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
normal"><span style="text-decoration: none">to</span></span></span></span></font><font
color="#000000"><span style="text-decoration: none"><span
style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
normal"><span style="text-decoration: none">
fundraising with the industry </span></span></span></span></font><font
color="#000000"><span style="text-decoration: none"><span
style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
normal"><span style="text-decoration: none">which
might stifle our ability to speak up</span></span></span></span></font><font
color="#000000"><span style="text-decoration: none"><span
style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
normal"><span style="text-decoration: none">,
though this was </span></span></span></span></font><font
color="#000000"><span style="text-decoration: none"><span
style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
normal"><span style="text-decoration: none">the</span></span></span></span></font><font
color="#000000"><span style="text-decoration: none"><span
style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight:
normal"><span style="text-decoration: none">
advice which we had received repeatedly.</span></span></span></span></font></font></font></p>
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<br>
<b><br>
</b><b>Norbert Klein</b><b><br>
</b><b>ISOC Cambodia Chapter</b><br>
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