[Chapter-delegates] ISOC open letter

[Veni Markovski]

Hi.
Thanks for the response. Some comments below.

On 5/18/21 13:09, Andrew Sullivan via Chapter-delegates wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 10:45:16AM -0400, Veni Markovski wrote:
>> Andrew,
>> I tried to find a link from the ISOC main page to the open letter, but I
>> couldn't
>
> It appears an internal step for these kinds of interventions got
> missed, and the link didn't get added to the front page.  It's been
> fixed now.  That said, any communication with any particular
> government is unlikely to dominate our main web page, since it would
> be by definition interesting only to part of our global communiity.

May be a separate page, where such communication is being kept? Attempts
by governments around the world to control the Internet, and the
reaction against that by ISOC (regional/chapters/etc.) is always good
for other regions.

>
>> the government of Canada, but your name is not among the people, who
>> have signed it? How is ISOC writing to the government, without the
>> signature from the President&CEO?
>
> Our Regional Vice President for the region (in this case, NA) signed
> it.  That's how we normally do these.

Ah, OK, good to know that they sign on behalf of the organization.

>
>
>> In any case, this is a detail, but I wanted to ask if that means ISOC
>> would be willing to support other such efforts in situations, where a
>> separate country may face some issues, related to the Internet?
>
> In this particular case, it's a direct attack on the critical
> properties of the Internet, as outlined in the Internet Way of
> Networking materials
> (https://www.internetsociety.org/issues/internet-way-of-networking/). 
> We likely can't do this in every country, of course, because we don't
> really have the resources to monitor everything that is happening
> everywhere.

Well, that's where you can count on the chapters to let you know - else,
some people may think that Canada has a special importance (similar to
what Bulgaria has for me;-).

> We are better able to do it in places where we have active local
> chapters and various partners who are leading the way in such
> activities (as can be seen in this case, for instance).

Indeed. Perhaps this conversation, in the delegates' list, could trigger
other chapters to be also more engaged and active, if they know they can
count on ISOC's shoulder if they are in need of support.

>
>> remember few years ago, when we had an issue with the Internet
>> regulation in Bulgaria,
>
> I'm not sure I can comment on that case.  Do you remember when it was
> and what the context was?

This was way back, and we got support by Vint Cerf and Don Heath (then
President & CEO); the intervention helped us a lot; today's ISOC is
quite different.

>
> Best regards,
>
> A
>

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