[Chapter-delegates] Save the date: January 30

Tue Jan 25 05:12:30 PST 2022

Dear Veni et all,

We appreciate you bringing attention to the recent Internet governance discussions at the ITU and the possibility of an expanded discussion at the Plenipotentiary later this year. ISOC’s priorities in the five-year strategic plan are to build, promote and defend the Internet, and we continue to advance these strategic priorities in various intergovernmental fora, including the ITU, with the support and collaboration of our community.

Later this year, we will be sharing with our members some resources such as a matrix of draft ITU resolutions that can help stakeholders navigate the negotiations. We would also welcome a chance to share insights as many Chapter members work closely on these issues with their national governments.

Our community can be most impactful in our advocacy in support of the Internet. We appreciate the proposal by ISOC Bulgaria to engage ISOC Chapters and Members, and we welcome suggestions on how the ISOC team might collaborate and, or support our mutual efforts. Perhaps the ChAC could include this on its agenda for its next meeting and make recommendation(s) based on what ISOC Chapters/members determines would be most useful and where we can be helpful and, or assist Members with engagement at the national level. We'd love to hear from Members and appreciate opportunities to work together.

Best regards,

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Constance Bommelaer de Leusse
Area Vice President
Institutional Relations and Empowerment
The Internet Society
www.isoc.org<http://www.isoc.org>

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From: Chapter-delegates <chapter-delegates-bounces at elists.isoc.org> on behalf of Veni Markovski via Chapter-delegates <chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2022 11:15 AM
To: Hank Nussbacher <hank at post.isoc.org.il>
Cc: Chapter Delegates <Chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org>; European Chapters <european-chapters at elists.isoc.org>
Subject: Re: [Chapter-delegates] Save the date: January 30

Yes, Sunday.

On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 02:35 Hank Nussbacher <hank at post.isoc.org.il<mailto:hank at post.isoc.org.il>> wrote:
On 25/01/2022 02:10, Veni Markovski via Chapter-delegates wrote:

 Are you sure?  Jan 30 is a Sunday.

Regards,
Hank

Hi, everyone.
Following up my previous email (quoted below), here’s the Zoom call information, date and time:

Topic: ISOC chapters discussion
Time: Jan 30, 2022 03:00 PM Brussels

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88438674930?pwd=ZDFwVXdkY3lIZm5YZFVVbjcyR1ErUT09

Meeting ID: 884 3867 4930
Passcode: 589317
One tap mobile
+16465588656,,88438674930#,,,,*589317# US (New York)
+13017158592,,88438674930#,,,,*589317# US (Washington DC)

Meeting ID: 884 3867 4930
Passcode: 589317
Find your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kfaafpGQg

Thanks to all, who commented so far; if you have other ideas, suggestions, etc. email me directly or here.

On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 18:26 Veni Markovski <veni at veni.com<mailto:veni at veni.com>> wrote:
Hi, everyone.
Please, do not share with other lists; this is an issue of relevance for the chapters only!

At ISOC Bulgaria we have been following the discussion at the ITU Council Working Group on International Internet-related Public Policy Issues (CWG-Internet<https://www.itu.int/en/council/cwg-internet/Pages/default.aspx>), which this week was discussing the topic for the next open public consultations.
I wanted to give you some feedback and ask you to step up your contacts with your national telecom administrations (usually this would be the Ministry for Communications or some other Ministry or governmental agency. A list of all the members, including which governmental agency/ies represent them at the ITU is here: https://www.itu.int/hub/membership/our-members/directory/?myitu-members-states=true&request=countries

You may have read* in the last year about the the attempts by the Russian Federation to drive the ITU in discussion of issues, related to the Internet; within the European Chapters (in CC:) we spent some time last September talking about what's going on. Perhaps we could organize ourselves and have an all-chapter Zoom call among all chapters? See more on that further below.

This past week the Russian federation proposed two topics for discussions, they are both publicly accessible here<https://www.itu.int/md/S22-RCLINTPOL17-C/en>, but I am attaching them for your convenience. You will see details in these documents; the summary is that Russia proposes member states to discuss among themselves the following issues:
•      risks for reliability and stability of existing model of the operational activities organization/operators of critical Internet infrastructure;
•      Member States’ inputs and proposals on possible ways to overcome existing challenges and neutralize risks for operational activity organizations/operators of critical Internet infrastructure;
•      what international structures and procedures can overcome the existing challenges and risks.

And for the public consultations they proposed the topic:

"Reliability and stability of the operational activity organizations/operators of critical Internet infrastructure: key and challenges of their operating activities, in particular the risks of being in national jurisdictions."

See their arguments and details in the attached documents.

This is not the first time they are proposing a topic, related to "critical Internet infrastructure", as described in the articles* below.

At ISOC Bulgaria, where we have participated for the last 23 years<http://isoc.bg/kpd/index2-eng.html> in helping the Bulgarian government making sure the telecommunications laws are Internet-friendly and to ensure that the Internet develops open, unregulated and without restrictions<https://isocbg.wordpress.com/2010/10/20/bg-itu/>, we raised awareness to the newly elected Bulgarian government (December last year) about the latest Russian proposals, as they touch on the more than two decades Internet-friendly environment in the country - result of policies, which have been discussed between governments and the non-governmental sector for years.

Of course, there's always more that could be done, and this is where all chapters cold not only join forces, but also try to make a difference. That is, of course, if you care about keeping the Internet open, interoperable, stable and developed, as the WSIS Tunis Agenda<https://www.itu.int/net/wsis/docs2/tunis/off/6rev1.html> (art. 35 and others) says, with participation by all stakeholders, in their respected roles.

I personally think we should not be asking ISOC.org to help us in setting the call, but if they say they would, that would be great. If not - ISOC Bulgaria will be happy to provide a Zoom link. To include as many chapters as possible, we suggest to have it at 6 am California, 9 am New York, 3 pm Brussels, 7:30 pm in Delhi, 10 pm  in Singapore. We understand that some chapters might not be able to join, and others (Australia, New Zealand) perhaps definitely won't be able to join (midnight in Brisbane), but nevertheless, we should try to include as many as possible.

ISOC Bulgaria urges you for a quick and focused discussion on here first, and then we meet next Sunday, January 29th in order to make sure people can join. I understand that for some working day might be easier, while a Sunday impossible, but there always will be some percentage of people, who won't be able to join, so we have to choose one day anyway.

Hope that this is helpful, and enjoy reading the articles and documents.

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* - See the articles below. Disclaimer: ISOC Bulgaria does not necessarily reach to the same conclusions or share the same ideas as the author.

February 1, 2021: Russia is trying to set the rules for the Internet. The U.N. saw through the ruse.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/02/01/russia-internet-rules-united-nations/

March 30, 2021: How Russia and China are attempting to rewrite cyberworld order
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/how-russia-and-china-are-attempting-to-rewrite-cyberworld-order/2021/03/30/16030226-9190-11eb-a74e-1f4cf89fd948_story.html

May 4, 2021: Russia’s plot to control the Internet is no longer a secret
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/05/04/russias-plot-control-internet-is-no-longer-secret/

July 20, 2021: Russia and China’s hypocritical attempt to control cyberspace
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/07/20/russia-china-are-trying-control-internet-even-they-censor-it/

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Best regards,
Veni
Chairman of the Board
Internet Society - Bulgaria
https://www.isoc.bg
pgp:5BA1366E veni at veni.com<mailto:veni at veni.com>

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