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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Calibri">Not only that, but what the goal of participation is, whether the organization’s processes are even receptive to that, and what (realistic) impact it would have compared to a similar investment
of time/money elsewhere. I find it very hard to believe that the right place for chapters is spending time influencing 5G technical standards.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt">On 8/4/16, 7:41 AM, "Chapter-delegates on behalf of Kolubahzizi T. Howard" <<a href="mailto:chapter-delegates-bounces@elists.isoc.org">chapter-delegates-bounces@elists.isoc.org</a> on behalf of
<a href="mailto:kolubahzizi@yahoo.com">kolubahzizi@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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2nd action point, representation at international meetings, we need to begin a discussion of how the representatives will be selected and what the criteria should be for selection.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Liberia Telecommunications Authority (LTA) <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">On Thursday, August 4, 2016 7:32 AM, Dave Burstein <daveb@dslprime.com> wrote:</span><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:HelveticaNeue;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black">In April, a remarkable board discussion made it clear that
</span><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:HelveticaNeue;color:black">top down decisionmaking</span><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black"> was not appropriate at ISOC. </span><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:HelveticaNeue;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:HelveticaNeue;color:black">Board member Walid Al-Saqaf said the Chapters' Committee "will get whatever you need." Several other board members have said similar, publicly
and privately. There was no public disagreement, either at the meeting or afterward on the mailing list. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:HelveticaNeue;color:black">The change to a more bottoms-up, chapter and member approach isn't happening. Of course it's difficult for a staff that's made all the decisions
to share power; some of the problem may just be inertia. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:HelveticaNeue;color:black">We seem to have rough consensus on two essentially modest proposals. We can, and should, resolve any remaining issues and advance them today.
They have both been extensively discussed in April and since. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:HelveticaNeue;color:black">The first is </span><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black">to allow our chapters to allocate 3% of our $50M budget to
local actions, from paying non-profit accounting fees to lo</span><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:HelveticaNeue;color:black">cal events. Reporting and financial control would be required. Even if imperfect, that would be far more effective than the
current system, where the budget says, as Joly has pointed out, one-third of the money goes to administration, not program services. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:HelveticaNeue;color:black">The second is to invite our experienced members to bring the Internet Society to the important standards committees where we currently have no
presence. It's great we support the IETF, but the other groups that have an impact on access need a public interest presence even more. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:HelveticaNeue;color:black">We can send as many people to ITU Study Groups as we like as a sector member of ITU. The Secretary-General encouraged Kathy Brown to do that;
Hamadoun wanted more involvement so the U.S. would stop beating over the head about closed meetings. (Almost none are.) ISOC could credential all of civil society if we chose and send 100 people. One study group wants to set the rules for IoT - we should be
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:HelveticaNeue;color:black">The most important group to attend if we want lower access costs is 3GPP, which makes the 3G/4G/5G rules, the most common way people are connecting
today. It has no public interest presence and is only corporations. A very hot issue there is the line code choice for 5G. Royalties could be half the cost of a low end smartphone, something which should be as cheap as possible. Qualcomm, Nokia and Huawei,
each smelling $B or more in royalties, and trying to win the standard. They will probably come to an agreement so that each collects and phone prices go up. Not good for poor people.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:HelveticaNeue;color:black">We also should be strong at the Wi-Fi groups, including IEEE 802.11, which is an open group. I believe that Wi-Fi will be the right access for
village. India, Thailand and others are building backbone fiber to tens of thousands of towns. Wi-Fi is the natural local connection. The telcos want to take as much as half the Wi-Fi spectrum for their LAA service. I care because I want a public interest
presence.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:HelveticaNeue;color:black">We have a cooperation agreement with CITEL, the policy group of the Americas. We could arrange similar with the African Union telecom body, etc.
At minimum, the local chapter members should attend and report back to us. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:HelveticaNeue;color:black">Decisions in standards effect $billions in access costs. We should be attending and making a difference.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:HelveticaNeue;color:black">There's another reason ISOC has to rely more on the chapters. We haven't adapted to the reality that 2/3rds and possibly 3/4ths of today's Internet
is not America and Western Europe. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:HelveticaNeue;color:black">It's wonderful that the founders of ISOC and the Internet itself, including Bob and Vint, are still active. They've earned extraordinary respect.
But it's time to incorporate people from the global South/BRICS/Group of 77 into policy and other senior positions at ISOC. Virtually every senior policy person and senior manager at ISOC comes from the U.S. and Europe, and that hasn't changed over the last
decade. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:HelveticaNeue;color:black">"We have to build bridges," U.S. Ambassador Verveer told me after the the Internet split at the WCIT in Dubai. Our chapters are far more diverse
than our management; empowering chapters would be a good way to hear more from the global south. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black"> "The Internet is for everyone" is a great slogan. I think bringing access to everyone should continue as </span><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:HelveticaNeue;color:black">priority</span><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black">,
and I think most members would agree. We should put that line back on our home page. </span><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:HelveticaNeue;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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