[Chapter-delegates] Proposed law to ban Skype in Russia?

[Veni Markovski]

It would be good to know in advance on future events, supported by
ISOC, anywhere - be that if we have a chapter, or if we don't.
Sometimes some of our members have knowledge about potential issues,
and sometimes, we could give bes advise to the ISOC speakers.

Having said that, I knew for some time that ISOC is sponsoring a
conference (www.rans.ru), but I am not aware if they'll be sending
speakers to that conference.

In general, I believe Russia is important for the overall development
of the Internet. Their voice is being heard at international meetings,
and their IT-products are good. Sometimes, even better than all others
(e.g. Yandex vs Google)

Best,
Veni

On 8/15/09, Marcin Cieslak <saper at saper.info> wrote:
> Fred Baker wrote:
>> Per Google Translation:
>>
>> So - some operators are worried about their monopoly stranglehold, and
>> users are worried.
>>
>> Not sure what your question is. What would you like to see said and/or
>> done, and by whom?
>
> First, I think it is good to know, since we don't have a chapter there.
>
> I heard that ISOC will be present on an upcoming conference in Moscow
> and I think we might want to present our position there and probably to
> gain some ground to carry out ISOC's mission in Russia.
>
> Besides that I think this case is worth watching since I can imagine
> there are many other countries following the same pattern, for example
> ex-Soviet countries in Central Asia, where there is still one
> telecommunications company and some people hardly imagine that one might
> need more than one.
>
> --
>               << Marcin Cieslak // saper at saper.info >>
>
>

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