[Chapter-delegates] Tomorrow Hearing on SOPA in U.S. House of Representatives

[Dan York]

Marcin,

> What's ISOC position in this?


I'm not on the public policy side of ISOC and therefore can't give an official "position" on SOPA, but I would note that in response earlier this year to the U.S. Senate version of the SOPA bill (called the "PROTECT-IP Act"), the Internet Society published this whitepaper outlining in very clear terms why the technique of DNS Filtering would not work and would be dangerous to the Internet infrastructure:

http://www.isoc.org/internet/issues/dns-filtering.shtml

(PDF download links are at the bottom of that page)

As a U.S. citizen, I have personally emailed the PDF of that whitepaper to my senators and representatives along with my personal comments.  I have also been passing that link along through social networks so that people have some way to learn more about the technical issues behind the mechanisms proposed in SOPA and PROTECT-IP.

Regards,
Dan

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On Nov 15, 2011, at 3:03 PM, Marcin Cieslak wrote:

> http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/hear_11162011.html
> 
> Witness List
> Maria Pallante
> Register of Copyrights
> U.S. Library of Congress
> 
> John Clark
> Chief Security Officer and VP of Global Security
> Pfizer
> 
> Michael O'Leary
> Senior Executive Vice President
> Global Policy and External Affairs
> MPAA
> 
> Linda Kirkpatrick
> Group Head
> Customer Performance Integrity
> MasterCard
> 
> Katherine Oyama
> Policy Counsel
> Google
> 
> Paul Almeida
> President
> Dept. of Professional Employees
> AFL-CIO
> 
> What's ISOC position in this?
> What does it take to be invited to a hearing?
> 
> //Marcin
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