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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Thanks, Ted. <br>
I was wondering if I need to write, since there was only one </font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">comment in the last five days.
Perhaps the alarming lack of comments on such a topic could be of
help for the BoT - and hopefully the BoT would be able to use this
alarm for some positive work and outcome. <br>
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v/<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/13/22 12:00, Ted Hardie via
Chapter-delegates wrote:<br>
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colleagues,<br>
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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>
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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>
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To issue an effective call to action, the listeners must
understand what changes if they do not act.<br>
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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>
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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>
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Thanks, as always, for your efforts on behalf of our mission,<br>
<br>
Ted Hardie<br>
For the Board of Trustees</div>
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