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

[Leslie Daigle]

Hi,

A brief word about our involvement in the upcoming RANS meeting in  
Russia:  yes, we are sponsoring the event, and intending to take an  
active role in the agenda.   We are doing this very much *because* we  
would like the opportunity to communicate the open Internet model in  
Russia.

In terms of actual contributions --  Lynn will have a prepared message  
for the opening of the event, and Standards & Technology's John  
Schnizlein may wind up reading it out to the opening plenary.  Apart  
from that, we have offered a talk on DNSSEC/DNS Security (John's area  
of focus), and are having troubles getting confirmation that it will  
be part of the main conference agenda.  Additionally, since our level  
of sponsorship allows for a booth at the conference, we are sending  
along some basic background materials (as we did to the ITU WTPF  
meeting) -- now translated into Russian, as well as the other UN  
languages.

So -- that's our current plan.  Comments and help welcome :-)

Leslie.

On Aug 15, 2009, at 5:03 AM, Marcin Cieslak 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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Leslie Daigle
Chief Internet Technology Officer
Internet Society
daigle at isoc.org