[ih] ISOC wikipedia page

[Joly MacFie via Internet-history]

Thanks for your responses, but they don't address my question, which
perhaps I did not phrase properly.

Do you know some good secondary sources, (i.e. not posted on ISOC's
website) that cover ISOC's history?

joly

On Sun, Dec 22, 2019 at 6:49 AM Dr Eberhard W Lisse via Internet-history <
internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

> In my view not.
>
> And most certainly not in the sense of this mailing list.
>
> And, in any case, this is not history, but SJW, for which
> there are sufficient other fora.
>
> el
>
> On 2019-12-22 12:29 , Joly MacFie wrote:
> > Is ISOC's history not part of Internet History?
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Dec 22, 2019 at 5:18 AM Bill Woodcock via Internet-history <
> > internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
> >
> >> Indeed, I see no connection with IH.  Is the problematic portion the
> >> paragraph beginning “This sale to private equity was concerning to civil
> >> society...”?  I agree that that’s a bit muddled.
> >>
> >>                 -Bill
> >>
> >>
> >>> On Dec 22, 2019, at 10:35, el--- via Internet-history <
> >> internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> What does this have to do with IH?
> >>>
> >>> el
> >>>
> >>> —
> >>> Sent from Dr Lisse’s iPad Mini 5
> >>>> On 22. Dec 2019, 09:54 +0200, Joly MacFie via Internet-history <
> >> internet-history at elists.isoc.org>, wrote:
> >>>> .ISOC is a little controversial right now, because of the PIR sale.
> One
> >> of
> >>>> the more vocal opponents joined Wikipedia just to rewrite ISOC article
> >>>> according to his POV. This can be seen on the *current version*
> >>>> <
> >>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Internet_Society&oldid=931900997
> >>>
> >>>> .
> >>>>
> >>>> So, I tried to improve things by rewriting the page as a *very basic
> >>>> history*
> >>>> <
> >>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Internet_Society&oldid=931027723
> >>>
> >>>> .
> >>>>
> >>>> There followed an edit war, from which I had to withdraw with an
> >> admitted
> >>>> COI. I have now issued an *RFC*
> >>>> <
> >>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Internet_Society#RfC_on_proposed_base_version_of_this_article
> >> .>
> >>>> on
> >>>> which is a better version, the current, or my rewrite? However, it's
> >>>> suffering from a lack of responses. If you're a wikipedia editor,
> please
> >>>> feel free to to go there and comment, or even edit the article
> yourself.
> >>>>
> >>>> But, more to the purpose of this list, if you know of some good
> >> secondary
> >>>> sources, (i.e. not posted on ISOC's website) that cover ISOC's
> history,
> >>>> please mention them.
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks
> >>>>
> >>>> Joly
> >>>>
> >>>>
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