[Chapter-delegates] Appointment of former MPAA CTO Paul Brigner as North American Regional Director of Internet Society

[Sivasubramanian Muthusamy]

Dear Steve Crocker,


This message from you is reassuring. If Paul's appointment is a carefully
and elaborately considered decision, then it amounts to hiring an expert
that we don't have among us.

Thank you

Sivasubramanian M

On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 1:39 AM, Steve Crocker <steve at shinkuro.com> wrote:

> David
>
> Let me add to Jason's and Lynn's support of Paul.  I'm one of the
> co-authors of the white paper arguing against COICA/PIPA/SOPA, and I spent
> a LOT of time in meetings with legislators, policy people in the
> administration, and industry people pushing hard against the DNS blocking
> portion of those bills.  This brought me in contact with Paul.  He worked
> actively over the past few months to organize constructive dialog with the
> MPAA.  Despite having spent a year with the MPAA, he's one of the good
> guys.  I think the better point of view is that he brings knowledge of how
> "those guys" think and he is not at all captured by them.
>
> Steve
>
>
>
> On Mar 21, 2012, at 2:45 PM, Lynn St.Amour wrote:
>
> >
> > On Mar 21, 2012, at 11:26 AM, Livingood, Jason wrote:
> >
> >>> I am profoundly disturbed by the appointment of Paul Brigner as North
> >>> American Regional Director of the Internet Society.
> >>>
> >>> In his previous position as Chief Technology Officer at the Motion
> >>> Picture Association of America (MPAA) he worked for the passage of PIPA
> >>> and SOPA.
> >>
> >> <snip>
> >>
> >>> The effective endorsement of MPAA policy positions by the Internet
> >>> Society with the appointment of Brigner threatens to poison those
> >>> relationships and severely damage the good name of the Internet
> Society.
> >>>
> >>> I respectfully request that you reconsider the appointment of Paul
> >>> Brigner as North American Regional Director of the Internet Society.
> >>
> >> I really hope you give Paul a chance to show you what he can do. He
> worked
> >> for the MPAA for just one year. COICA, SOPA, and PIPA were in the works
> >> for significantly longer than that so I seriously doubt Paul had any
> hand
> >> in crafting those policy positions. Working on issues of copyright and
> >> blocking is important to ISOC and having someone with close knowledge of
> >> that seems to me to be valuable.
> >>
> >> His full CV is at http://www.linkedin.com/in/paulbrigner which says to
> me
> >> there is a lot he brings to the table.
> >>
> >> - Jason
> >>
> >
> > Jason,
> >
> > Indeed and thank you.  And David, thank you for your obvious concern for
> ISOC and our MIssion.  I won't jump in now as much of what I would say has
> already been said, but I am confident Paul will be a great asset and an
> ally.
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Lynn
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Chapter-delegates mailing list
> > Chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org
> > https://elists.isoc.org/mailman/listinfo/chapter-delegates
>
> _______________________________________________
> Chapter-delegates mailing list
> Chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org
> https://elists.isoc.org/mailman/listinfo/chapter-delegates
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://elists.isoc.org/mailman/private/chapter-delegates/attachments/20120322/ac4da45f/attachment.htm>