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

[Franck Martin]

Well as we have a chapter in Taiwan and as we want chapters to commit to packet freedom...

There are a few things they cannot sign unto.

However, I see ISC being more visible than ISOC on many domains. Is it because the press loves to bash China? or...

Note that we have a board member from China NIC.


----- Original Message -----
From: "WWWhatsup" <joly at punkcast.com>
To: "<chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org>" <chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org>
Cc: "George Sadowsky" <george.sadowsky at gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, 9 January, 2009 9:53:44 AM (GMT+1200) Auto-Detected
Subject: Re: [Chapter-delegates] An occasion to congratulate and commit support to an initiative that is not part of ISOC....

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? 
>