[chapter-delegates] Latest ISOC WGIG statement

David McAuley mcauley at isoc.org
Sat Jun 4 06:48:38 PDT 2005


Alejandro, thank you for your note. 

I will forward to Lynn and Mirjam to bring to attention of
group.

Very best wishes
David

On Fri, 03 Jun 2005 20:37:48 -0500 (CDT)
 Alejandro Pisanty <apisan at servidor.unam.mx> wrote:
> David,
> 
> at any rate, let's see some action. WGIG has just
> published a 
> work-in-progress, preliminary report of the responses to
> its 
> questionnaire.
> 
> Will this group be able to help provide a response?
> 
> Alejandro Pisanty
> 
> 
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> On Fri, 3 Jun 2005, David McAuley wrote:
> 
> > Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2005 15:56:18 -0400
> > From: David McAuley <mcauley at isoc.org>
> > To: 'Jacques Berleur' <jberleur at info.fundp.ac.be>
> > Cc: chapter-delegates at lists.isoc.org
> > Subject: RE: [chapter-delegates] Latest ISOC WGIG
> statement
> > 
> > Dear Prof. Berleur:
> > 
> > I am sorry for the delay but I was doing some
> background checking on this
> > information inasmuch as I myself had not participated
> in it directly. 
> > 
> > Our Public Policy positions are developed based on
> long-established
> > principles developed with and agreed by the ISOC Board,
> members and
> > chapters, in some cases are reviewed with members of
> the I* community and
> > these and have been expressed in various ways - going
> back to some of the
> > first Member Briefings from the fall of 2003 when WSIS
> I was underway.  This
> > was not a new position, the one you asked about.
> > 
> > We have made statements or published papers at each
> WGIG or WSIS meeting and
> > our position has been consistent even though we
> developed it further over
> > time. If you look at some of our first info bulletins
> (?The Genius of the
> > Internet?  (http://www.isoc.org/news/4.shtml); and ?The
> Internet Works
> > Through Coordination, Not Governance?
>  (http://www.isoc.org/news/7.shtml))
> > you will find the same underlying position. It is
> possible that our language
> > has become a little more direct, perhaps because we
> felt that this was
> > needed in order to be heard by WGIG.
> > 
> > And all the time we have worked closely with others of
> the I* community to
> > ensure we're not alone with our position. We also take
> steps to ensure our
> > statements are aligned with ISOC's principles and with
> the majority of our
> > members. 
> > 
> > Patrick Vande Walle mentioned a committee. That
> committee has 22 pretty
> > active participants, 11 of whom are also members of
> chapters although they
> > are not specifically asked to 'represent' their
> chapters. This is part of a
> > broad effort to accomplish what I mentioned: a
> statement aligned with ISOC?s
> > principles and with the majority of our members. 
> > 
> > Best wishes,
> > David
> > 
> > David McAuley
> > Membership Director
> > Internet Society
> > 703-326-9880, ext 104
> > 703-963-5887 (mobile)
> > mcauley at isoc.org
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jacques Berleur
> [mailto:jberleur at info.fundp.ac.be] 
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 1:01 PM
> > To: David McAuley
> > Cc: chapter-delegates at lists.isoc.org
> > Subject: Re: [chapter-delegates] Latest ISOC WGIG
> statement
> > Importance: High
> > 
> > Dear David,
> > I would be happy to have an information about the 
> > process of elaboration of this statement of ISOC 
> > to the WGIG. How have the chapters been involved 
> > in this process?
> > I don't think that this position will help the 
> > working group to come to a satisfactory position 
> > for the next phase of the WSIS in Tunis. It seems 
> > to me an aggressive position which doesn't take 
> > into account so many voices around the world. I 
> > don't understand how a technical position 
> > (including standardization) could dictate a 
> > global approach as requested by the WSIS (first 
> > phase, Geneva) in its Declaration of Principles 
> > (N° 48-50) as well as in its Plan of Action (N° 
> > 13, where the terms of reference of the WG are 
> > quite clear). There are surely technical 
> > problems, but also public policy issues.
> > What has been the process of elaboration of the
> so-called "ISOC statement"?
> > Thanks for youir attention,
> > Jacques Berleur
> > ISOC-Belgium (Wallonia)
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > >Dear Chapter Delegates:
> > >
> > >As you know, the World Summit on the Information
> Society (WSIS) and its
> > >Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG) are
> engaged in a process that
> > is
> > >gathering steam. The importance of this discussion
> should not be
> > >underestimated.
> > >
> > >In that regard, I would like to draw your attention to
> ISOC's latest
> > >statement to the WGIG. You can see it at:
> >
>
>http://www.isoc.org/isoc/conferences/wsis/documents/ISOC_WGIG_Commentary_20
> > 050418.pdf
> > >
> > >We commend this document to you. Please be sure to
> pass it on to your
> > >members, create links to it, bring to the attention of
> your partners and
> > >other organizations you work with - in brief please
> use this and related
> > >ISOC WSIS and WGIG materials for your chapter
> activities to inform and
> > >energize support for sound Internet development
> continuing into the future.
> > >ISOC will remain engaged and we will best do that with
> your input.
> > >
> > >Thank you.
> > >
> > >Best regards,
> > >David
> > >
> > >David McAuley
> > >Membership Director
> > >Internet Society
> > >703-326-9880, ext 104
> > >703-963-5887 (mobile)
> > >mcauley at isoc.org
> > 
> > 
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