<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Board Members and other ISOC people.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">The PIR deal is what it is. Other questions are more important for our future. ISOC can do a much better job.
</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">What can we do for the other 98% of the unserved who will not be reached by community networks? (See beyond 2%, below.)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Should the board lead a zero-based budgeting effort to bring our costs down and take some pressure off fundraising? (We all know there's waste.)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">How do we strengthen our chapters, encouraging and funding their <u>independent </u>efforts? (A proposal to direct 3% of our budget to chapter control, with safeguards, unanimously passed the chapters committee and was blocked in a closed session. We've lost two-thirds of our members.)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">How can we get the 2/3rds of Internet users barely represented in ISOC more involved, in both the organization and our decisionmaking? (2/3rds of net users are in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. China alone is between 25% and 40% and we've had <u>zero</u> Chinese on our board or senior staff for at least a decade.)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><div class="gmail_default">How do we concentrate our advocacy efforts where they will do the most good? We are outnumbered 20-1 by the US government at big ITU meetings. They don't need our help. Nor does AT&T or Google need our support on Net Neutrality. We spend much of our budget on meaningless generalities and talkfests, but are invisible at most fora where decisions are made. The 3GPP and 802.11 standards committees have far more practical effect on the cost of access, IoT, security, and privacy than anything else internationally. Ask me if you want details. We need to be places like that to make a difference.)<br></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Should our budget process be as multistakeholder as ICANN's? (They do it well while ours is secret.)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Should we continue to keep our donors secret? (I personally know two reasonable initiatives blocked because Verizon and other donors might disapprove. Anyone with DC experience knows what's expected when they give us money.)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Should our board get actively involved in decisions? (I don't know a single time the board has overruled staff in eight years. We have people on our board far more experienced than most of our staff, especially in policy and organizational effectiveness.)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">How do we bridge the Internet policy gap between the global North and the global South? (Rich nations versus poor ones; US & allies versus the Group of 76; or whatever you want to call it. Since 2011, we have consistently sided with the United States in <u>every</u> dispute among nations. We opposed three efforts by a united Africa at the WCIT in favor of US policy.) </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">-------------------------</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">It's time for the board to make sure we follow our goals of inclusion and transparency. Or find replacements who will.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">--------------</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><font size="4">Connecting beyond the 2%.</font> (A first look)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">I have volunteered for two community networks and support them. But CNs will not reach more than 2% of the unserved anytime soon. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Below, some suggestions I've made to ISOC-NY to suggest what is possible. Our reputation will get us the ears of politicians, a first step.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><ul><li>Indians know their issues better than I do. Bharatnet is supposed to bring fiber to 400,000 villages and not delivering. Perhaps our Indian chapters can find the facts and play a role. India has 96% 4G coverage, better than major European networks. </li><li>People in Kenya, Rwanda, Nigeria, and Tunesia know their issues better than anyone in Washington or NY. Last I heard, their major international cost issue was the cartel-like pricing of backhaul and transit and the high royalties on mobile. </li><li>African carriers have connected over 500M to mobile. I learn from them. ISOC at the WCIT opposed African efforts to do something on these subjects. </li></ul></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"> I'm on a State Department committee on Telecommunications. Frankly, DC doesn't understand the issues. I hope our Asian and African members take charge and lead us in the right direction. (That's why we need strong, independent chapters.)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">-------</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">My suggestions to New York.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif">When I asked Andrew what ISOC Central is doing on some important US issues about access, he said he thought the chapters should take the lead.</div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif">All improvements welcome. If something is not right, tell me and I'll change it.</div></div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif">Bringing the Internet to everyone requires many small steps, but ISOC-NY has the potential to make a difference. I chose three issues I believe we can have impact on, because very few others are addressing them. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif">1- T-Mobile already is redlining much of New York City, with no date for providing quality service. I'm almost sure Verizon will do the same. <span class="gmail_default"></span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">When I saw the map of T-Mobile NY deployments, it was painful. In Manhattan, nothing north of 125th St. (Below.) </span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif">Verizon Network President Ronan Dunne has said the majority of Verizon customers will get 5G at "4G-like speeds." Some districts will get Verizon's mmWave network, literally the best in the world. It's about 3X as fast as other 5G, designed for a true gigabit. The rest will be served by low-band & mid-band, at a much lower speed. (The industry decided last year to call just about every new build 5G, if the telco adds some software called 5G NR. 5G NR does little or nothing for network performance compared to decent 4G. 4G is now routinely over 100 Mbps. In December, T-Mobile will announce it's 600 MHz "5G network" which will run slower than some 4G T-Mobile already has in Manhattan.</div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif">Nobody else is writing about the inferior networks because there is so little real 5G in the US. We have an opening to make a difference.</div><br></div><span class="gmail-im" style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default"></span>So I'd like to propose this simple policy resolution.</div><div style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><b>ISOC-NY believes high-speed 5G should be delivered to all. We resolve: All levels of government should do what is necessary to prevent second class service for so many. The first step should be to get accurate information from the major companies of what they plan to build in New York State during the next three years.</b></div><div style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif">(The resolution carefully just calls for information-gathering, not action.)</div><div style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"></div><br></div></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default">2- </span>Protecting the poor</b></div><div style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><b><br></b></div><div style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif">Charter and Comcast have admirable programs to provide low-cost Internet to low-income families with children in school. However, the programs are not available to most poor people without children in school. (Some elderly with incomes of less than $750/month are included. SSI. That's n<span class="gmail_default">o</span>t enough to eat and find a place to live in today's NY.)</div><span class="gmail-im" style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><div style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif">We resolve: That all ISPs offer an affordable service to all the poor, whether or not they have children in school.</div><div style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><br></div></span><div style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default">3- </span>Truth in advertising</div><div class="gmail-yj6qo gmail-ajU" style="outline:none;padding:10px 0px;width:22px;margin:2px 0px 0px"><div id="gmail-:67s" class="gmail-ajR" tabindex="0" style="background-color:rgb(232,234,237);border:none;clear:both;line-height:6px;outline:none;width:24px;border-radius:5.5px"><img class="gmail-ajT" src="https://ssl.gstatic.com/ui/v1/icons/mail/images/cleardot.gif" style="background: url("https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/more_horiz_black_20dp.png") 50% 50% / 20px no-repeat; height: 11px; opacity: 0.54; width: 24px;"></div></div><div class="gmail-adL"><div class="gmail-adm" style="margin:5px 0px"></div><div class="gmail-im" style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><div style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif">We all hate deceptive advertising.</div><div style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif">Resolved: The advertised price is the total amount that the provider will charge for or relating to the provision of such service, including any related taxes, administrative fees, equipment rental fees, or other charges. Exception: Taxes or fees that are not uniform across the provider's territory.</div><div style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif">Since most of us learned Economics, several Nobel Prizes have been awarded for work showing how unequal information distorts the market. The language above corresponds to the language in the Markey bill pending in the Senate.<br>----------------------------</div><div style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif">I deliberately did not include net neutrality here, which I know many of us support. Some DC types have been confusing the issue. Any meaningful resolution requires a longer explanation.</div><div style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif">Here's the first data on redlining 5G.</div><div style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><h2 style="box-sizing:border-box;color:inherit;line-height:1.2;margin:0px 0px 18px;font-size:1.4em"><a href="http://netpolicynews.com/index.php/89-r/1136-verizon-t-mobile-4g-speeds-to-most-poorer-areas-not-5g-speed" title="Verizon, T-Mobile: 4G speeds to most poorer areas, not 5G speed." target="_blank" style="color:rgb(19,40,69);box-sizing:border-box;background:transparent;text-decoration-line:none">Verizon, T-Mobile: 4G speeds to most poorer areas, not 5G speed.</a></h2><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 9px"><img src="http://netpolicynews.com/images/a/T-Mobile-Mapbox-4G-5G-NY-230.jpg" alt="T Mobile Mapbox 4G 5G NY 230" dir="ltr" class="gmail-CToWUd" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: middle; display: block; max-width: 100%; height: auto; margin: 3px 8px 8px 3px; float: left;"></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 9px">Verizon and T-Mobile believe 5G speeds are not necessary in many of the districts in which poorer people live. The pink areas in the Manhattan map at left are where T-Mobile is offering its 5G. The darker, more purple areas, are not served with T-Mobile's generally excellent 5G. The upper part of Manhattan, mostly purple, includes Harlem and the mostly Latino Washington Heights. The Brooklyn area on the lower right also shows many areas not covered. (Much but not all of the pink are fairly commercial or wealthy areas. I do not think T-Mobile specifically intended to exclude people of colour, but that seems to be the practical effect.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 9px"><a href="https://www.verizon.com/about/investors/oppenheimer-22nd-annual-technology-internet-communications-conference" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(19,40,69);box-sizing:border-box;background:transparent;text-decoration-line:none">Verizon Consumer CEO Ronan Dunne is blunt. </a>More than half of Verizon customers will get 4G speeds, 70% to 90% slower than the other half getting the gigabit 5G.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 9px">So we've taken a very clear view that we want to have both a coverage strategy and a capability strategy. And a very large majority of the volume of data that we carry on our networks goes to large, dense urban environments. So from a population point of view, it'll be significantly less than half of the customers. But from a data traffic point of view, it's significantly more than half. So when it comes to the ability to use 5G as a significant capacity enhancement, there's more of an opportunity to leverage that in the urban areas. Secondly, from a use cases point of view, while we can deploy, and we will deploy a 5G nationwide offering, the lower down the spectrum tiers you go, the more that will approximate to a good 4G service. ...</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 9px">Millimetre wave gives you between 1- and 2-gig download speeds. The mid-bands and lowers are giving you in the low hundreds. So it's already very clear, the distinction between the 2." </p></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)">Guess who will get the slow stuff.</span> </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Reply "sub" for a free subscription to Fast Net News and Wireless One. (2 or 3/month)</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>