[Advisors] CIRA elections -- member slate

[Marita Moll]

Keep in mind that we are talking about a young new breed of Internet 
advocate who hasn't been around the pillar and post of community 
networking policy for all these many years.  I think this is an 
opportunity to educate and build new alliances.  God knows we don't have 
a lot to lean on.

And thanks for the quote from CIF. I think I used it last year and 
forgot.   I will suggest he turn this back on them.  CIF itself has 
provided the rationale.  But how does this pan out in the actual day to 
day work of CIRA and the CIRA board.   That is the question I am trying 
to find some way of addressing

Marita

On 8/16/2012 12:31 PM, Garth Graham wrote:
> On 2012-08-15, at 8:58 AM, Marita Moll wrote:
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>> Tell me what you think about supporting him.  Perhaps there are some things we would like to see added to this platform in return.
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>>> Original Message --------
>>> Subject:	Re: Thanks for sending some support
>>> Date:	Wed, 15 Aug 2012 11:36:03 -0700
>>> From:	Kevin McArthur<kevin@stormtide.ca>
>>> To:	Marita Moll<mmoll@ca.inter.net>
>>>
>>> Yep, I'd be happy to. How did you see CIRA engaging on this? …… Can you help me understand what steps you were hoping to see CIRA take towards community driven broadband? When I talk about it as part of my campaign, I'd like to be really clear on some concrete steps CIRA can take towards facilitating and supporting this type of development.
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> Because of the dominance of a "market-based approach" to "telecom" policy in Canada, the relationship of the Internet's future to questions of social development policy has been eliminated from public policy discussion in Canada.  Lots of people are fully aware that they risk seriously pissing people off by making that point.  McArthur's "hard" question raises a red flag for me.  As a "public interest" candidate can/should he answer it himself and is he just fishing to see what we say?  Or is he making the point that our interests aren't sufficiently "registration" oriented to get us elected in that constituency?
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> By saying as follows, CIRA itself seems to be a bit more open to “our” issues and concerns than he is:
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>> The CIF process also revealed an emerging consensus that there is a need for a public forum where all stakeholders can help explore and articulate the public interest in the future development and use of the Internet in Canada - by considering its impacts; discussing the opportunities and challenges they present; identifying issues requiring action by stakeholders in government, the private sector, and civil society, and raising awareness of these issues among decision-makers and the general public in Canada and internationally.” http://cira.ca/assets/Documents/Publications/wp-InternetCIF-CanadaFuture.pdf
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> I'd be more convinced if he answered along the lines of Mike's "mechanisms" workshop at IGF.
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> Your question re Heather is important, because she's been able to foster discussions of the Internet's future in Canada more effectively than we have.  CIRA's forum initiative is important.  Without getting to the table at CIRA, TC lacks an important element that is implicit in our ICANN/ALAC/NARALO responsibilities to the Canadian constituency we claim we represent.
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> GG
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