<div dir="auto">More from the archives that Joly found:<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Happened in 1996, happens today...</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><pre style="word-wrap:break-word;white-space:pre-wrap">WILL FRANCE REGULATE THE INTERNET?
<br></pre><pre style="word-wrap:break-word;white-space:pre-wrap">...France has joined a growing number of countries advocating putting some controls on the Internet. Francois Fillon, minister for information technology, said during a parliamentary debate that it would soon ask its European partners to start drafting international rules for global computer networks like the Internet. </pre><pre style="word-wrap:break-word;white-space:pre-wrap">The French initiative was prompted partly by the recent posting on the Internet of "Le Grand Secret" (The Big Secret), a banned book about Francois Mitterrand's battle with cancer written by Claude Gubler, the late president's personal doctor. A court battle this month banned the book --which claims that Mitterrand knew he had cancer in 1981 but ordered it concealed for 11 years as a "state secret" on the grounds it violated medical secrecy and privacy laws. But the Internet enabled people around the world to consult it and even make an electronic copy despite the court ban...</pre><pre style="word-wrap:break-word;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></pre></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 25, 2017 12:28 AM, "Sivasubramanian M" <<a href="mailto:isolatedn@gmail.com">isolatedn@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Wish I joined ISOC in 1992 !<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The Oct 2 1995 newsletter shows a glimpse of ISOC's foresight:</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><pre style="word-wrap:break-word;white-space:pre-wrap">REGULATION OF THE INTERNET
The Australian Computer Society has released an analysis of the DOCA
Consultation Paper on the Regulation of Online Information Services by the
ACS/EFA (Electronic Frontiers Australia) Joint Task Force (JTF 1995).
According to the release, the ACS is not pro- or anti-network regulation,
so much as interested in assisting the community in making choices on the
use of technology for community benefit. The ACS position is that:
1. Dialogue must be encouraged between public policy makers and the online
community to discuss workable solutions to controlling potentially
offensive information. This should be done using the Internet itself to
maximize the amount of input from the online community and help public
policy makers learn about the new medium.
2. Pre-classification of Internet material, as is done for film
censorship, is unworkable.
3. Existing laws on liability for speech and information should be
revised, where necessary, to be technology neutral.
4. Information carriers should not be held responsible for content that
they are not involved in the production of.
5. Internet software authors should be encouraged to add blocking
and monitoring facilities for parents to control what their children are
accessing.
6. An education campaign on safe use of the Internet should be conducted
for parents and children.
7. Codes of conduct for system operators should be encouraged.
For more information, contact Tom Worthington at
<a href="mailto:tomw@acslink.net.au" target="_blank">tomw@acslink.net.au</a>.
</pre>This was in 1995.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Thank you Joly, for unearthing all this from the Way Back Machine.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="elided-text">On Nov 25, 2017 12:13 AM, "Joly MacFie" <<a href="mailto:joly@punkcast.com" target="_blank">joly@punkcast.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="elided-text"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">We are coming up on ISOC-NY's 20th Anniversary, and I have been digging around to try and assemble a quorum of our founders. As I do it I've been turning up a few things</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">The ISOC Forum newsletter</div><div class="gmail_default"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/19980120025531/http://www.isoc.org:80/infosvc/forum/" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/19<wbr>980120025531/http://www.isoc.<wbr>org:80/infosvc/forum/</a><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">History of INETs</div><div class="gmail_default"><a href="http://bit.ly/inethistory" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/inethistory</a><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">ISOC Chapters WG web archive (including discussion of local vs global dues etc)</div><div class="gmail_default"><a href="http://www.isoc.org/isoc/chapters/wg/date.html" target="_blank">http://www.isoc.org/isoc/chapt<wbr>ers/wg/date.html</a><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">INET 98 includes 'guiding principles'</div><div class="gmail_default"><a href="https://www.isoc.org/inet98/about.shtml" target="_blank">https://www.isoc.org/inet98/ab<wbr>out.shtml</a><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">It seems we were were not the first US Chapter (Dec 97) by some measure. DC ISOC's earliest archived webpage <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/19961102044403/http://www.dcisoc.org:80/" style="font-size:12.8px" target="_blank">https://web.archive.or<wbr>g/web/19961102044403/http://ww<wbr>w.dcisoc.org:80/</a> (Nov 96) which says "We have held several very successful events during our first 1.5 years" which would put them around May 95.</div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Is there a definitive date list of Chapter approvals somewhere?<br></div><div class="gmail_default"><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">joly</div><br></div>-- <br><div class="m_8710417625144558001m_5762887842821890598gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>------------------------------<wbr>------------------------------<wbr>---<br><span>Joly MacFie <span title="Call with Google Voice"><a href="tel:02185%20659%20365" value="+912185659365" target="_blank">218 565 9365</a></span> Skype:punkcast</span><br>------------------------------<wbr>------------------------------<wbr>--<br>-</div></div></div>
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