[Chapter-delegates] 2009 Year End Message from ISOC President & CEO

Wed Dec 23 22:48:01 PST 2009

Dear Lynn,

Thanks a lot for your encouraging message.
I would like to extend my best wishes to you, to ISOC, its staff, supporters and its chapters for a wonderful festive season.

Merry Christmas and a happy New Year 2010

Best regards

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-----Original Message-----
From: chapter-delegates-bounces at elists.isoc.org [mailto:chapter-delegates-bounces at elists.isoc.org] On Behalf Of Lynn St.Amour
Sent: 24 December 2009 00:45
To: Chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org
Subject: [Chapter-delegates] 2009 Year End Message from ISOC President & CEO

Thanks for an Extraordinary Year of Achievements
from Lynn St.Amour, President and CEO of ISOC

Dear Members, Friends, and Colleagues,

The end of 2009 is rapidly approaching - and what a year it has been.  
The Internet Society continued to prosper in 2009, the results of our  
work reaching wider and deeper than ever before. So it is a pleasure  
to extend my sincere gratitude to all of you whose combined efforts,  
energy, and dedication have made this such a great year.

We often use the term "Internet community" and, looking back at the  
achievements of this year, it is clear that these are truly the result  
of a strong, committed community pulling together around shared values  
and principles.

It is impossible to list here all of the Internet Society's  
achievements from such a busy and productive year, but I would like to  
single out a few highlights.

Within the Enabling Access Initiative, we worked closely with Chapters  
and other local and regional partners to significantly extend our  
technical and policy capacity building programmes, especially in  
Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean. These efforts were aided  
through a revitalized INET programme with specialized content  
developed in partnership with local communities, and which reached out  
successfully to hundreds of participants in each location.  This work  
advanced our profile and strengthened our message in many high-level  
forums, such as the OECD, the World Bank, and the ITU. Access  
continues to be one of the major themes in many of the Chapter and  
other member projects supported by our grants programmes.

In our InterNetWorks Initiative, a number of new efforts contributed  
to helping to advance the health of the Internet. ISOC continues to  
project a strong voice for IPv6 deployment, so it has been pleasing to  
see in 2009 that IPv6 is gathering momentum around the world. In an  
exciting new development this year, ISOC launched a series of topical,  
lively panel discussions during IETF meetings. The first on IPv6  
deployment attracted much international attention. Together with the  
subsequent panels on DNS security and bandwidth management issues,  
these events have set the scene for what will be an important ongoing  
activity, helping to advance the health of the Internet and promoting  
the role of the IETF.

ISOC's Trust and Identity Initiative benefited from two important new  
staff additions in 2009, increasing our involvement in many important  
new initiatives and partnerships in both the Trust and Identity  
spaces. One of the most significant is the Kantara Initiative  
(formerly the Liberty Alliance), in which ISOC has developed a strong  
voice and leadership role.

Throughout all of our work in 2009, we strived to promote better  
understanding of the nature and importance of the Internet Model of  
development and the relationships of the many organizations and  
functions making up the Internet Ecosystem. These efforts have clearly  
paid off and we were very pleased to see many of our messages  
reflected in the words and actions of many others in regional,  
national, and global discussions. In 2009, ISOC's key messages were  
more frequently cited in media reports and reflected in statements by  
policy makers around the world than ever before.

Additions to ISOC's staff in 2009 helped us make big strides in  
producing better publications and communications resources, delivering  
important information and services in more languages, and providing  
much greater support for events where Chapters, Individual and  
Organization Members, and others come together in support of our  
common mission. The successful Sphere project continues to be an  
excellent process for enabling the full potential of the Chapter  
network. And we were very pleased to recently launch the first phase  
of our new Association Management System as a much improved tool for  
Chapter and member interaction.

This year was one of ISOC's most significant ever in terms of global  
engagement. With highly visible roles in the EU, ITU, OECD, IGF, and  
many other major policy and technical forums, it is clear that ISOC's  
reputation as a trusted and authoritative voice on critical Internet  
issues continues to grow stronger. We again were honoured to  
coordinate the participation of other organizations, especially in the  
Internet Technical Advisory Committee to the OECD and the Internet  
Pavilion at the ITU's Telecom World 2009. At the latter event, ISOC  
announced the Next Generation Leaders programme, a new activity  
starting in 2010 to build on our past successes such as the Network  
Training Workshops (NTW's), as well as our current work in Fellowships  
to the IETF, and Ambassadorships to the IGF and other forums, adding  
coursework and mentoring to help accelerate the careers of the young  
practitioners who will lead the Internet into its next generation.

Finally, the Internet Society is finishing the year on a high note,  
having just announced our support for the World Wide Web Consortium  
(W3C), to help it evolve as a more agile, inclusive, and flexible  
organization, as it creates and promotes open standards.

There is so much more I could mention here - it really has been an  
extraordinary year.  As 2009 draws to a close, it is important to  
recognize and thank all those who contributed to such a successful  
year.  So, thank you to all the Individual and Organization Members,  
the Chapters, and all our other supporters and partners for their  
efforts and support as we worked together in pursuit of our common  
goals.  Thank you to our friends in the Internet Engineering Task  
Force (IETF) and the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) without whose  
values and work, the Internet, as we know it, would not exist.   And,  
of course, thank you to the ISOC staff, the ISOC Board of Trustees,  
the Organization Member Advisory Council and the Public Interest  
Registry (PIR), for their efforts and support.  To all of you, your  
support is vital to helping the Internet improve the lives of people  
everywhere.

Finally, I'd like to extend my very best wishes to you and your  
families during the holiday season, as we couldn't do what we do  
without their support.  I look forward to working together with all of  
you for a prosperous and successful 2010.

Warmest regards,
Lynn

Lynn St.Amour
President & CEO, Internet Society

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