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[Alejandro Pisanty]

Dear Anne,

thanks a lot for this news. It is excellent that Constance attend this 
meeting, with her background in the subjects at hand available.

I do have a couple of thoughts worth exploring to see if they raise 
concerns among other Chapter delegates, or in the Members' Public Policy 
list:

1. ISOC's continuing presence within the ITU, esp. as ISOC representatives 
go further into the ITU's tissue and closer to the core, can in principle 
be interpreted as an endorsement of what the ITU does with respect to the 
Internet. I do not think that at least up to the most recent past this can 
be said at all. So ISOC's representatives must act in such a way as to 
keep the Society's decision space as intact as possible.

2. The documents you mention are unevenly known in ISOC. It is probably a 
good idea to ask Constance to send out a quick review of the most relevant 
aspects in which we think that ISOC agrees, and those where she thinks we 
disagree, with the views that inform the Action Plans etc., and with the 
roles that the ITU sees for itself, its internal actors, and others.

3. The ITU's development arm is the one in which many ISOC and in general 
Internet-community people find more affinity. It certainly has been a 
vehicle to deliver Cisco schools to developing regions, for example, and 
many among us will say "take whatever is helpful from wherever it comes" 
in relation to this. I'd like to say that at least some Chapter delegates 
and members would have some reservations here and would be heartened to 
see that some ISOC organizational members (companies, to be clear) put in 
an effort with ISOC for similar purposes as with the ITU. Of course the 
fact that the ITU's activities are taken up by local authorities in many 
countries, and ISOC's aren't, creates a strong asymmetry. We must work to 
even it out.

4. Among other political agendas that may get played out in the context of 
the meetings Constance will attend are some in which the ITU has very 
little proven qualifications, and are subject to a buildup (however slow 
or fast) by the IETF, ISOC, ICANN, the W3C, and so on; a good example is 
Internationalized Domain Names, another is the administration of ccTLDs. 
Unless others among our membership think differently, it will be incumbent 
on Constance to work very hard, sometimes actually fight, to keep those 
agendas in the right, capable hands.

Do other Chapters have thoughts to add, different views, etc.?

Yours,

Alejandro Pisanty


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On Mon, 16 Apr 2007, Anne Lord wrote:

> Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 00:29:41 +0200
> From: Anne Lord <lord at isoc.org>
> To: Chapter Delegates <chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org>
> Subject: [Chapter-delegates] (no subject)
> 
>
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> This is to inform you that ISOC is sending a representative
> (Constance Bommelaer, Public Policy Manager) to the next ITU
> Telecommunication
> Development Conference (TDAG) meeting 16-20 April in Geneva:
>
> http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/tdag/index.html
>
> The TDAG agenda will address key topics such as the results of the
> WorldTelecommunication Development Conference held in Doha in 2006.
> It will also
> review the implementation of the Istanbul Action Plan in 2006 and the
> draft four-year rolling plan (2007-2010) that should guide ITU's
> Telecommunication Development Bureau.
>
> We invite you to make contact with Constance Bommelaer
> (bommelaer at isoc.org, +33 6 62 17 31 86) if you will be there.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Anne
>
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