[Chapter-delegates] ISOC in the 90s

[Sivasubramanian M]

Wish I joined ISOC in 1992 !

The Oct 2 1995 newsletter shows a glimpse of ISOC's foresight:

REGULATION OF THE INTERNET

The Australian Computer Society has released an analysis of the DOCA
Consultation Paper on the Regulation of Online Information Services by the
ACS/EFA (Electronic Frontiers Australia) Joint Task Force (JTF 1995).
According to the release, the ACS is not pro- or anti-network regulation,
so much as interested in assisting the community in making choices on the
use of technology for community benefit. The ACS position is that:

1. Dialogue must be encouraged between public policy makers and the online
community to discuss workable solutions to controlling potentially
offensive information. This should be done using the Internet itself to
maximize the amount of input from the online community and help public
policy makers learn about the new medium.

2. Pre-classification of Internet material, as is done for film
censorship, is unworkable.

3. Existing laws on liability for speech and information should be
revised, where necessary, to be technology neutral.

4. Information carriers should not be held responsible for content that
they are not involved in the production of.

5. Internet software authors should be encouraged to add blocking
and monitoring facilities for parents to control what their children are
accessing.

6. An education campaign on safe use of the Internet should be conducted
for parents and children.

7. Codes of conduct for system operators should be encouraged.

For more information, contact Tom Worthington at tomw at acslink.net.au.

This was in 1995.

Thank you Joly, for unearthing all this from the Way Back Machine.

On Nov 25, 2017 12:13 AM, "Joly MacFie" <joly at punkcast.com> wrote:

> We are coming up on ISOC-NY's 20th Anniversary, and I have been digging
> around to try and assemble a quorum of our founders. As I do it I've been
> turning up a few things
>
> The ISOC Forum newsletter
> https://web.archive.org/web/19980120025531/http://www.
> isoc.org:80/infosvc/forum/
>
> History of INETs
> http://bit.ly/inethistory
>
> ISOC Chapters WG web archive (including discussion of local vs global dues
> etc)
> http://www.isoc.org/isoc/chapters/wg/date.html
>
> INET 98 includes 'guiding principles'
> https://www.isoc.org/inet98/about.shtml
>
> It seems we were were not the first US Chapter (Dec 97) by some measure.
> DC ISOC's earliest archived webpage https://web.archive.
> org/web/19961102044403/http://www.dcisoc.org:80/ (Nov 96) which says "We
> have held several very successful events during our first 1.5 years" which
> would put them around May 95.
> ​
> ​Is there a definitive date list of Chapter approvals somewhere?​
>
> ​joly​
>
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