[Chapter-delegates] Fw: BBC News: China/ITU/IETF

[Franck Martin]

At the moment you see a backlash of government retaking power over the Internet. 

Trade talks where the civil society is not invited
Cyber crime, where ITU is taking a lead behind closed door
Australia which wants to put a filter at its borders
This new push by China

So the Internet from being International is coming back to be national.

Is it because of the failure of the Internet community to handle the miscreants? 
Is it because no one knows the IETF/W3C/ICANN and other bodies?

I think we need to take a step back, and assess what's happening, from there we can build a strategy. ISOC is still fighting fires. It does not attract the general public to it.

On a related issue, I'm seriously concerned about the turn in policy inside ISOC.

We had a Policy Director, Frederic, then we had, a Strategic Global Engagement staff, Bill Graham, whose job overlapped and overtook Frederic, Frederic now moves to the European Bureau, now we are looking for a VP of policy.

1) it undermines staff to be overruled
2) it shows we are not consistent

Seems to me we have lost the plot, if we ever had one?

Franck Martin 
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----- Original Message -----
From: "James Butler" <jbutler at isoc-la.org>
To: Chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org
Sent: Saturday, 19 December, 2009 10:48:37 AM GMT +12:00 New Zealand
Subject: Re: [Chapter-delegates] Fw: BBC News:  China/ITU/IETF

Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond wrote:
>>
>> Very interesting article on the BBC:
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>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/8417680.stm
>>