[Chapter-delegates] Key questions for achieving the Internet for Everyone

[Dave Burstein]

Marcin and all
This isn't just about China. Our board now has no one from South Asia.
India has more regular Internet users than the US has people, with Reliance
Jio adding ~10M more each month, all 4G. We have no one from Africa and
only one from Latin America.

Marcin, do you have any suggestions on how to include the world in ISOC?

I'm not calling for quotas or requirements for national origin. But ISOC
for a decade has reflected a point of view that differs strongly from what
I'm hearing from Africa and South Asia. We will be able to accomplish more
with strong chapters reflecting the national view.

The government of China is authoritarian. I'm well aware of what happened
in 1959, 1965, and to Muslims in 2019. I also know no government has done
more for IPV6. Two-thirds of the 5G in the world in 2020 will be in China.
De facto, China, Japan, and Korea dominate standards, including wireless,
the most important way to reach the unconnected.

In Internet policy, I know the US is falling behind because we haven't
built bridges to the BRICs and others who disagree with us.

1) We have an independent group in Russia. It's not easy, but we certainly
can find some reasonably independent people in China.

2) We have many chapters in countries with extremely ugly governments. If
we turned away a country because we disagree with the government, we pay a
high price. Whether that be Saudi Arabia, Hungary, or Uzbekistan, it
interferes with our goal, For Everyone.

3) We have to find a way to solve the China inclusion problem. They are
such a large part of the Internet. Tsinghua University is one of the three
or four most important research centers for telecom and Internet design.
China Mobile and China Telecom are central to SDN, CORD, and network
design.

Dave

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On Fri, Nov 22, 2019 at 4:31 AM Marcin Cieslak <saper at saper.info> wrote:

> On Fri, 22 Nov 2019, Dave Burstein via Chapter-delegates wrote:
>
> > China alone is between 25% and 40% and we've had *zero*
> > Chinese on our board or senior staff for at
> > least a decade.)
>
> I am sure I do not want to have the government of People's
> Republic of China to be represented in the Board of Trustees.
>
> Marcin Cieślak
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