[Chapter-delegates] ISOC meetings in San Francisco - Internet Observatory project proposal

[Rudi Vansnick]

Dear Tommi,

I've been talking about ISOC Belgium's participation in this structure for several years. Today, this official structure within the Belgian government still is alive, but not very kicking.
In June 2010, before and during the elections period in Belgium, ISOC Belgium has proposed a 5 point program to the Belgium gov covering at least 2 aspects of the observatory.
We are actively participating (partly leading) ongoing round tables with different players and stakeholders on internet issues, basically oriented to define possible new regulation and governance rules in Belgium. Todays talks are more specifically with regard to domain name and cross borders problems on internet transactions.
 
I'm, of course, willing to participate actively in your project proposal, as we have already 6 years of experience in observatory matters related to policy and governance of the internet.
I will be in San Francisco on Saturday, so eventually we could have a chat already, as I have booked arrangements on Sunday evening crossing the ISOC meetings.

See you soon in SF.

Rudi Vansnick

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Op 11-mrt-2011 10, om 02:41 heeft Tommi Karttaavi het volgende geschreven:

> Joly,
> 
> Thanks for pointing this out, I'll look into it. There also seems to be an "Internet Rights Observatory" (http://www.internet-observatory.be) but I don't know if it is currently active (anybody know anything about it?).
> 
> We may want to call it the "Internet Public Policy Observatory" or something like that to avoid confusion. But let's burn that bridge when we get to it :)
> 
> I have however already registered internetobservatory.org, so here's hoping we don't need to change that...
> 
> You can go and take a look at it if you like. Currently it is a very basic Drupal site with just enough structure and content to give some idea of what it could be (I spent all of one hour yesterday setting it up).
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Tommi
> 
> On 10.3.2011 20:22, Joly MacFie wrote:
>> "Internet Observatory" was the name of an exhaustive survey carried out
>> by Arbor Networks in 2009
>> http://www.nanog.org/meetings/nanog47/abstracts.php?pt=MTQ1MyZuYW5vZzQ3&nm=nanog47
>> <http://www.nanog.org/meetings/nanog47/abstracts.php?pt=MTQ1MyZuYW5vZzQ3&nm=nanog47>
>> 
>> Not that I think it will be serious conflict, but to ensure no confusion
>> you might want to clear it with them that they don't have a similar
>> project underway now.
>> 
>> j
>> 
>> On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 3:30 AM, Tommi Karttaavi
>> <tommi.karttaavi at isoc.fi <mailto:tommi.karttaavi at isoc.fi>> wrote:
>> 
>>    Dear all,
>> 
>>    I would like to introduce an agenda item I asked Sabrina to add to
>>    the agenda a few days ago. It is a proposal for a Community Grant
>>    project called "Internet Observatory".
>> 
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