[Chapter-delegates] Does your Chapter want to be a remote hub for the Global INET?

[Joly MacFie]

Sorry to be contrary but...

It's always been widely known,at least within ISOC, that the Internet
Society of China is a non-aligned body with regard to the Global Internet
Society. They have expressed in the past the imperatives, which we may or
may not understand or validate, that make them choose this path.

That said, engagement is good. We have, some years back, hosted their
representatives in NYC. They were politely interested in what we had to
say, as indeed were we the other way.  Not everything they do is bad, by
any means.

It really smacks of hubris for us to tell them what they can call
themselves or, because of pique, not welcome them to engage to the best of
our ability. Such actions can only play to the rationale of those that wish
to replace the open multistakeholder model with a top-down treaty based
regime like the ITU.


j



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