[Chapter-delegates] ISOC briefing paper re: ITU IPv6 Group meeting, March 15-16

[Kabani]

Bill,

Thank you for the document, seems good for the ITU just one question the
ownership of document and rights issues need to be address.

Best Regards

On 2 March 2010 09:58, Sivasubramanian Muthusamy <isolatedn at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello Bill Graham
>
> In the APNIC list, Geoff Huston responded to the thread
> http://archive.apnic.net/mailing-lists/apnic-talk/archive/2010/02/msg00015.html with
> some very interesting observations:
>
>
> http://archive.apnic.net/mailing-lists/apnic-talk/archive/2010/02/msg00015.html
>
> *...over the 20th century ... national regimes addressed the social needs
> for broad access to a single functional telephone network via national
> monopolies , the ITU assumed... the role of being the monopolists club.
> Since many of these monopolies were publically owned and operated
> enterprises the role of governments and the role of the monopoly actors were
> closely aligned. ... the opposition was mainly from the US, but on the whole
> the ITU was tolerated given the lack of any viable alternative.*
> *
> the ITU has been supremely irrelevant to th [Internet] business models. ...
> I find it ironic that the latest efforts by the ITU to regain some degree of
> relevance ...have the ITU invoking the mantra of "competition!" From the
> supreme head of the former monopolist club that indeed is an ironic, and
> economically and politically speaking a naive and inept move on the part of
> the ITU.*
> *
> *
> *the ITU has been supremely irrelevant to th [Internet] business models.
> ... I find it ironic that the latest efforts by the ITU to regain some
> degree of relevance ...have the ITU invoking the mantra of "competition!"
> From the supreme head of the former monopolist club that indeed is an
> ironic, and economically and politically speaking a naive and inept move on
> the part of the ITU.*
> *
> *
> *
> *
>
> These observations could be incorporated in any communication from ISOC
> /ISOC Chapters to Governments.
>
> Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 7:06 AM, Bill Graham <graham at isoc.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi Veni,
>>
>> Well, it is not copyright, but it is marked for internal briefing
>> purposes.  If friendly governments happen to see them, and find them useful,
>> they would be free to copy at will.  As for quotes, the only quotes are from
>> ITU documents available to Member States and Sector Members, so that should
>> not be a problem.
>>
>> Bill
>>
>> On 1-Mar-10, at 7:17 PM, Veni Markovski wrote:
>>
>>  Bill,
>>> what is the copyright status of the document, and of the quoted in the
>>> document documents?
>>> I mean, if a government wants to use them, parts of them, or portions, do
>>> they need to come to ask for agreement, or are they free of copyright?
>>>
>>> venii
>>>
>>> On 3/1/2010 5:32 PM, Bill Graham wrote:
>>>
>>>> Please find the document in a friendlier format, as requested.
>>>>
>>>> Also, I've had questions about ISOC's plans for the meeting, and can
>>>> confirm that staff intend to be there.  Yes, and I'm sure we will make a
>>>> statement, along the lines in this briefing.  The precise text will have to
>>>> be developed on site, once we hear how the meeting is going.
>>>>
>>>> kin
>>>>
>>>
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