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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Dear Alejandro,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>ITU-T Study Group 3 has been studying OTT since 2013, see:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> <a href="https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/studygroups/2013-2016/03/Pages/q9.aspx">https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/studygroups/2013-2016/03/Pages/q9.aspx</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><a href="https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/studygroups/2013-2016/03/Pages/ott.aspx">https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/studygroups/2013-2016/03/Pages/ott.aspx</a> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>A summary of the status of the work as of October 2017 is at:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <a href="https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/Workshops-and-Seminars/bsg/201710/Documents/Park.pdf">https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/Workshops-and-Seminars/bsg/201710/Documents/Park.pdf</a> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><br>The work is continuing, with the Terms of Reference at:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <a href="https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/studygroups/2017-2020/03/Pages/q9.aspx">https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/studygroups/2017-2020/03/Pages/q9.aspx</a> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><br>Given the sensitivity of the topic, it might be difficult to find consensus in ITU-T Study Group 3 on Recommendations regarding OTT.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Regarding “resolutions in the ITU Plenipotentiary that are out of scope for the organization”, ITU - like all other intergovernmental organizations and most organizations in general - defines its own scope. So, by definition, a PP Resolution cannot be out of scope, since it defines the scope. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I think that what you mean is “resolutions in the ITU Plenipotentiary that, in our view, should be out of scope for the organization”. If indeed that is ISOC’s view.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Best,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Richard<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Alejandro Pisanty [mailto:apisanty@gmail.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, November 4, 2018 04:41<br><b>To:</b> Richard Hill<br><b>Cc:</b> Elizabeth Oluoch; ISOC Chapter Delegates<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Chapter-delegates] Call with Chapters in advance of the ITU Plenipotentiary 2018 (18 Oct, 10:00 and 20:00 UTC)<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Hi,<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>it's happening, as reported in social media. Drafting by a huge committee, resolutions in the ITU Plenipotentiary that are out of scope for the organization, while all "sector members" (i.e. companies and operators) and organizations like ISOC have 1.5 rows of seats at the back of the room, without power outlets. See this figure:<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><img border=0 width=528 height=396 id="_x0000_i1025" src="cid:image002.png@01D4740E.44B2F510" alt=image.png><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Can we in ISOC Chapters promptly draft a petition to each of our governments, easy to translate into many languages, to demand that they vote to fullly retire this resolution? We certainly can do it without becoming subservient to the OTTs or any other private, for-profit interests, going instead against "mission creep" (an unjustifiable growth in scope of the ITU) and its negative effects on the Internet. What do other Chapter delegates think?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Alejandro Pisanty<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>