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<td>Re: [Internet Policy] [Chapter-delegates] What ISOC is
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<td>Alejandro Pisanty via InternetPolicy
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<td>Andrew Sullivan <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:sullivan@isoc.org"><sullivan@isoc.org></a>, Christian de
Larrinaga via InternetPolicy
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<div dir="ltr">Andrew,
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<div>bringing together several threads:</div>
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<div>1. The Internet Way of Networking and the Internet Impact
Assessment Toolkit are very useful tools. We have worked with
them in discussions with legislators, regulators, and people
from trade associations in helpful ways. As you have correctly
stated, much of this work goes unnoticed because it is
deliberately discreet; because it is contained in meetings and
teaching which at the time don't seem momentous enough to
report (and sometimes frustrating, because staff churn in
legislatures means you have to start again with the next
litter), or because it takes place outside ISOC's radar. In
some countries, Chapters have become dysfunctional or in
dereliction of duty but ISOC members continue to do this work
none the less.</div>
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<div>2. I add to the mix a tool of my own, the 6F Framework, in
which we ask people to analyze how their initiatives
(legislation, business, whatever) respond to six factors, viz.
mass scaling (with network effects), identity management,
transjurisdictional effects, barrier lowering, friction
reduction, and memory. It all adds to a better assessment, the
avoidance of some disasters, and improving or abandoning bad
ideas. It would be useful to start building a library of cases
in which interventions like this have worked (or failed, too,
for lessons learned.) </div>
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<div>3. Sometimes ISOC staff or ISOC as an organization may be
less than happy about one or another of the Internet-native
organizations, and each of these may be unhappy about others
among themselves (or at least dislike the attitudes.) More
esprit de corps among the I* will never be damaging for the
Internet; and it does not preclude honest criticism and
constructive contributions to collective improvement. ISOC is
the one with the highest mandate to do what the other
organizations cannot, for reasons like not getting entangled
in politics, avoiding mission creep, etc. In very concrete
terms the least ISOC can do is surprise avoidance and
environmental awareness for the whole ecosystem. Chapters and
members globally are a great asset for this purpose if ISOC
chooses to accept and even foster their/our contributions. </div>
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<div>4. I think ISOC does well in not jumping into all
bandwagons. We may see massive support for some initiatives,
and see them favorably as an organization, but it is still
wise to let each party do the job they are best fit and
designed for. While ISOC does excellent work that not only
respects but actually promotes the improvement on many rights,
for example, it is not centrally built as a human-rights
advocacy organization. Staying within the mission defined by
its role as interface to the technical organizations is
prudent. As you correctly say, even defining what is "a good
environment" is not totally agreed upon; on other issues
differences within the Society will be even more stark. We can
still agree on the kind of Internet we want in which to
process all other differences. </div>
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<div>5. On multistakeholder governance. We should differentiate
among different criticisms of it. Some originate in pure lack
of understanding. Others, in the firm belief that only the
multilateral scheme is not only legitimate but valid and
democratic. Others, from not accepting any variation from
top-down authority - and in many cases, authoritarian rule
inside their countries, so total opposition to
multistakeholder regimes elsewhere as well. A very good study
was published recently, "Multistakeholder Governance and
Democracy - A Global Challenge", by Harris Gleckman. It is
steeped in classic multilateralism but openly admits its
failures giving rise to multistakeholder approaches. Despite
the severe criticism the third-before-last paragraph includes
the statement "[multistakeholderism] does not have the
capacity to be that new global governance system. What it does
do is to posit that there will be a successor to
multilateralism, and in so doing it opens the door for the
consideration of a system that places public participation and
democracy on the same level - if not above - effectiveness and
efficiency as essential elements of a ost-nation-state-based
governance system." The Internet is the prime testing ground
here, because of its very nature as you have explained. </div>
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<div>Yours,</div>
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<div>Alejandro Pisanty</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jul 10, 2021 at 9:45
PM Andrew Sullivan via InternetPolicy <<a
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moz-do-not-send="true">internetpolicy@elists.isoc.org</a>>
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0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br>
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I note that some others have answered your questions, and
AFAICT I agree with them. A couple more remarks below.<br>
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On Fri, Jul 09, 2021 at 07:51:04PM +0530, parminder via
InternetPolicy wrote:<br>
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>That is an interesting concept... Will like to know what
'Internet' or<br>
>'good Internet' is for you/ ISOC, against which alone any
impact<br>
>assessment can be marked.<br>
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Have you looked at the toolkit and the Internet Way of
Networking materials? It is intended that these sorts of
questions (and the others that you asked later in your mail,
which I have elided from this) are answered by those
materials. I would do an injustice if I tried to summarize
here. But, if there is something that isn't answered for you
in the materials, it would be important to know that, since
additional work is happening right now.<br>
<br>
Note that this is about _the Internet_, and not about
everything vaguely related to the Internet. So, for instance,
one might think that concentration of ownership is bad for
society and so on, and maybe also bad for the Internet. The
toolkit is intended to be useful in analyzing the extent to
which such a state of affairs, or any regulatory action
intended to address it, affects the Internet itself, and not
all the social implications that come from that. Similarly,
if there is an application (call it "Blither") where people
can post their thoughts, and a particular national government
has a lot of negative things to say about postings on Blither,
that would _not_ be in scope for the Internet Way of
Networking project, because it is but one application that
happens to use the Internet. That is true even if that
particular application is a very significant portion of the
global Internet traffic. There _might_ be erosion of the
critical properties due to the concentration of traf<br>
fic in a particular application, but that is a separate
question.<br>
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> (We all know what good environment is.)<br>
<br>
Really? My impression is that such a definition is far from
universally agreed upon. <br>
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Best regards,<br>
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A<br>
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