<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">ISOC folks</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">I should have sent this earlier. But if you get me questions before 7, I'll pass them on.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">New York folks</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Simple questions to help fit into the allotted time. I sent a note previously that covered too much.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><ul><li>What can ISOC do for the 98% not likely to be reached by community networks? <br></li><li>What are the <u>international</u> issues affecting access where ISOC can make a difference?<br></li><li>How do we get ISOC on track to allow the chapters to have funds to allocate themselves, with sensible oversight? <br></li><li>Should we focus on issues where we can make a difference or continue to focus on issues that already have strong advocates?<br></li><li>How can we have clear policy recommendations that members can judge? <br></li><li>Should ISOC be a global organization? <br></li></ul>

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</div>A little clarification.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Access (to me the most important issue)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">What can ISOC do for the 98% not likely to be reached by community networks?<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><i>CNs are good and I've volunteered for two. 95+% of the world won't be reached by CNs for a long time. We need a strategy for the great majority. </i><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">What are the <u>international</u> issues affecting access where ISOC can make a difference?</div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:14.4px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><i>I'm on a U.S. State Department committee which makes recommendations that mostly tell other countries what to do domestically. The folks in D.C. frankly know much less than the folks who have connected well over a billion new users. </i></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:14.4px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><i>    My take is to focus on issues that need international consensus, including royalties, backhaul/transit, regulation of giant multi-nationals.</i></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:14.4px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:14.4px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><u>Strengthening the chapters</u><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:14.4px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:14.4px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-family:verdana,sans-serif">How do we get ISOC on track to allow the chapters to have funds to allocate themselves, with sensible oversight?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:14.4px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><i>Two years ago, a majority of board members spoke in favor of allowing chapters to allocate a (very small) part of ISOC's budget. (Initially, 3%.) The board requested the chapters committee make a concrete proposal and we worked for 6 months. Everyone approved. </i></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:14.4px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><i>      It died in a closed session of the board, without any meaningful explanation. </i></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:14.4px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><i><br></i></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:14.4px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-family:verdana,sans-serif">How do we bring multi-stakeholder decisionmaking and diverse opinions to ISOC?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:14.4px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><i>This has been promised at least since 2012. We talk a good game but decisions are made by a few people at the top.</i></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:14.4px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:14.4px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><u>Policy</u></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:14.4px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:14.4px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Should we focus on issues where we can make a difference or continue to focus on issues that already have strong advocates?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:14.4px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><i>Most of our policy work reinforces powerful factions that don't need our help. There are plenty already working on Net Neutrality, for example. Our ITU proposals seem to go little further than the U.S. and Western Europe. </i></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:14.4px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:14.4px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-family:verdana,sans-serif">How can we have clear policy recommendations that members can judge?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:14.4px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><i>Russia and Saudi Arabia support "multi-stakeholder" and "open Internet." So do Verizon and Donald Trump. Unless we make clear how our proposals are different from those, these buzzwords are pr tools. </i></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:14.4px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><i>    A well thought out policy recommendation should contain enough specifics that we can test it against facts, not just rhetoric.</i></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:14.4px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:14.4px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Should ISOC be a global organization?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:14.4px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><i>More than 1/3rd of the Internet is totally excluded and many others - including our chapters in the global South - are rarely involved in making decisions.</i></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:14.4px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><i>   The BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) now have more Internet users than the U.S. and Western Europe combined. The gap is growing by millions each month. </i><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:14.4px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:14.4px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-family:verdana,sans-serif">At minimum, we should stop recommending "multi-stakeholder" until we implement it ourselves. We shouldn't claim to be "global" until we have most major camps included.</div></div></div>
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