[chapter-delegates] ISOC and WGIG report

[Patrick Vande Walle]

Dearl all,

This is a proposal I have made to the board and I willing to test it 
with the ISOC membership to see if this effort might be worth it, as  I 
keep hearing that "ISOC does not have a position" or "we cannot find a 
consensus", etc regarding public policy. 

My  starting point is that ISOC is a *membership* organization. At the 
end of the day, the membership should have the last word. You elected 
the board members but that does not mean you gave us a blank cheque to 
do whatever we want during our 3 year mandate.  The board may not have 
the replies to all the issues and it should regularly go back to those 
who have elected them for advice, especially if we are not sure what our 
members think.

WGIG will publish its report at the beginning of July. This report will 
suggest different approaches and ISOC should determine which of them it 
is agreeing on and which do no fit our vision of the future of the 
Internet. ISOC should poll is membership on the document and ask it to 
evaluate the WGIG proposals. Staff would compile statistics and 
comments. The results would then become an official
ISOC position. 

Ideally, this would allow ISOC to have clear, unambiguous, and 
forward-looking positions in time for the next PrepCom and the Summit in 
Tunisia at the end of the year. I am well aware that the end results of 
this poll  may not please everyone, but this is the rule of the game. As 
Churchill once stated: " democracy is the worst form of government 
except for all the others".

Best regards,

Patrick Vande Walle