[chapter-delegates] Re: [MemberPubPol] ISOC and WGIG report

[Erik Huizer]

I like it. It's concrete, measurable and doable. I would include the 
organizational members too.

Erik

--On woensdag 29 juni 2005 9:15 +0200 Patrick Vande Walle <patrick at isoc.lu> 
wrote:

> 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
>
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