[Chapter-delegates] Important:: UN Internet Governance Survey

[David McAuley]

Dear Chapter Delegates:

The Internet Society has been participating in the World
Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)
http://www.itu.int/wsis/ and will participate in the next
meeting in Tunis this coming November. 

An important part of the discussions at the summit will be
focused on Internet Governance. The way that some are
seeking to govern the Internet has direct impacts on all
Internet users and your voice needs to be heard.

A working group on this subject (WGIG) has just published
its final report to the summit. See http://www.wgig.org/
for the report, a background report and transcripts of the
formal presentation of the report on Monday July 18th at
the UN in Geneva. The WGIG has requested comments on these
reports (by August 15th, 2005) and a consolidated set of
reports and comments will then be sent to the WSIS in
support of their official deliberations.

The Summit has a PrepCom coming up in September and ISOC
intends to continue its efforts to inform WSIS and related
efforts and so will participate in the coming PrepCom.  To
do so most effectively, we encourage all members to make
their views on this subject known. You can do this here at:
http://geneva.isoc.org/surveys/index.php?sid=3 and through
your other member and chapter activities.

ISOC plans to submit comments based on our principles and
in line with our mission: To assure the open development,
evolution and use of the Internet for the benefit of all
people throughout the world." Previous ISOC interventions
are posted at http://www.isoc.org/isoc/conferences/wsis/
and also see http://www.isoc.org/briefings/ for various
ISOC Member Briefings on these topics.

In order to better prepare our comments we seek your
feedback on the recommendations and proposals made in the
report.

Please spend a few minutes to respond to the questions at
our survey at
http://geneva.isoc.org/surveys/index.php?sid=3 Your input
is important especially as we enter this new phase of WSIS.
  

We will publish our comments and interventions on the ISOC
web site as usual.  Note: this survey will officially close
on August 1st in order to allow us to meet the WSIS comment
deadline.  We will keep the survey up longer in order to
facilitate maximum responses, etc. but to ensure your voice
is heard, please respond now. And please ensure your
members are aware of this and spread the word.

Thank you in advance for your time and help in this very
important endeavor.

Best regards,
David

David McAuley
Membership Director
Internet Sociert
mcauley at isoc.org