[Chapter-delegates] ISOC and its involvement with the IETF

[Joly MacFie]

A couple thoughts.

> Technical people see the beauty of centralized Internet system.

I have to take issue with this. Technical people, in my experience, are
great fans of decentralized systems. Decentralization is why TCP/IP won out
over OSI etc, after all. Not to say consolidation isn't an issue.

More generally, perhaps a re-reading of The Tao of IETF
<https://www.ietf.org/about/participate/tao/> is in order?

As far as representation of end users goes, "usercentricity" was an early
ISOC pillar, and I believe is still held in high regard. But this is in a
technical rather than a political sense.

 ICANN's At-Large does claim to represent end users
<https://atlarge.icann.org/about/index>. See

A couple of years back John Laprise founded the 'Association of Internet
Users <https://icannwiki.org/Association_of_Internet_Users>' but it never
gained much traction, and he appears to have given up.

j


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