<div dir="auto">Dear Ted,</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Thank you for reaching out. I would like to submit two useful points for the BT to consider </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">1. The ISOC should use chapter to build relationship with regulators and policymakers as a doorway to influence policy making of the laws and regulations that seeks to frustrate Internet Way of Networking etc.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">2. ISOC should invest in number 1 by having a local Internet Policy Working with local and International experts. The group will focus on policy and regulatory issues on the ground for the purpose of always staying ahead of the game as local Internet or digital policies evolve. To meet with policymakers,technocrats and regulators requires objective funding. This could be a permanent policy advocacy group for each chapter. The attacks on Internet way of Internet does not start today. It is incremental and the efforts to push back should also be incremental in the opposite direction. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">In my opinion such move will make us more proactive and ready us to win the battle before it even begin!</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Again thank for reaching out</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Nazar </div><div dir="auto"><br><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 13 Oct 2022 at 19:00 Ted Hardie via Chapter-delegates <<a href="mailto:chapter-delegates@elists.isoc.org">chapter-delegates@elists.isoc.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Dear colleagues,<br><br>At the annual general meeting, the Board of Trustees discussed the rise in attacks on the Internet way of networking and the broader set of attacks on the Internet's value to humanity. The Board asked, as a result of these discussions, that the staff build action plans for the upcoming year that reinforced the "Defend" aspect of the society's efforts to build, promote, and defend the Internet.<br><br>As we look beyond the staff actions to how to mobilize the society as a whole, the Board is seeking your advice. We believe that many who are now disparaging the value of the Internet are doing so to audiences of regulators, lawmakers, and civil society that cannot effectively imagine a network that works differently. As a result, they cannot imagine the damage or impairment that changing the fundamental nature of the Internet would bring. <br><br>To issue an effective call to action, the listeners must understand what changes if they do not act.<br><br>We would like to know your thoughts on how to provide that contrast--how to show what the world would look like with an Internet that has succumbed to these threats. One in which encryption provides no confidentiality; one in which access to the network is determined by state approval rather than voluntary association; one in which every piece of content or commentary must be submitted to algorithmic acceptance prior to being made visible. <br><br>As we come up to the meeting of the board on November 12th and 13th, we would like you to consider what advice you can give us on this point, and we ask you to provide it either with your usual report or instead of it, as you prefer.<br><br>Thanks, as always, for your efforts on behalf of our mission,<br><br>Ted Hardie<br>For the Board of Trustees</div></div>
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