[Chapter-delegates] An occasion to congratulate and commit support to an initiative that is not part of ISOC....

[WWWhatsup]

I could be wrong but I'm under the impression that there was an extended engagement in the 90s after
which, ultimately, the Chinese decided to go their own way - the 'Internet Society of China' being a quasi-government
run body as much concerned with control as propagation.  I do remember receiving a delegation here in NYC at the time,
very polite and non-committal.

I've cc'd George Sadowsky - perhaps he could enlighten us?

joly

At 03:39 PM 1/8/2009, you wrote:
>Hello 
>
>Joly MacFie posted this message in One Web Day with a disclaimer. His message is about the Netizen Cultural Festival to be organized in Beijing. Perhaps this would be an occasion to congratulate the 'Internet Society' of China and encourage them? We may eventually have to ask them in a nice way to name their organization a bit differently and/or welcome them to be a part of ISOC, but now this is an occasion for ISOC to congratulate them? 
>
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>Joly MacFie's Message in <http://www.onewebday.org>One Web Day follows:
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>[Note that The Internet Society of China is NOT affiliated with
>the global Internet Society.]
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