[Advisors] Internet policy issues for ISOC Canada

[Marita Moll]

Well, I guess that depends on the people who get involved.  ISOC Canada 
is barely off the ground at this stage.

Marita

On 9/8/2014 7:03 PM, Gary W Kenward wrote:
> How is ISOC Canada any more open then CIRA?
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> On Sep 8, 2014, at 15:53, Garth Graham <garth.graham at telus.net 
> <mailto:garth.graham at telus.net>> wrote:
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>> On 2014-09-05, at 11:21 AM, Marita Moll wrote:
>>
>>> As a member of the ISOC Public Policy Committee, I am looking for 
>>> feedback on issues that should be on ISOC-Canada's agenda.  This is 
>>> a new organization and a new committee.  We can have an impact.  We 
>>> do have people on this list who have been participating nationally 
>>> and internationally in Internet public policy issues for some time. 
>>>  So, I would be pleased to bring your concerns to this committee. 
>>>  If the divisions (and the language used) are confusing, just ignore 
>>> them, just list policy issues that concern you.
>>>
>>> -- broad public policy issues with the Canadian Internet ecosystem 
>>> at this time?
>>
>> 1. Many nation states now have national Internet Governance Forums 
>> that feed into the UN's Internet Governance Forums, and other IG 
>> discussions.  Many of those IGFs are open (or, to follow the current 
>> acceptable under certain highly qualified circumstances phrase, use 
>> the multistakeholder model).  Canada does not.  And, although CIRA 
>> seemed to be making a start, I wouldn't qualify what they are doing 
>> now as even a discussion, never mind open!  Of course, this issue is 
>> already on ISOC Canada's agenda.  So I only mention it here to note 
>> that it's a TC agenda item also.
>>
>> 2. Community ownership and control of open fibre optic networks, an 
>> essential element of community development capacity in a digital 
>> economy, is completely impossible within the the framework of 
>> Canada's market-based telecommunications strategy.  TC has 
>> consistently pointed this out in every national discussion that ever 
>> occurred.  It would be nice to ave some real allies that understood 
>> the point, then implications and the long term consequences.
>>
>>>
>>> -- broad public policy issues within ICANN, either as generated by 
>>> ICANN's policies or its activities
>>
>> My thoughts on this are on record at:
>>
>> A DARK MIRROR OF INTERNET USE Garth Graham, July 11, 2014
>> https://community.icann.org/download/attachments/48347119/To%20account.pdf?version=1&modificationDate=1405373073000&api=v2 
>> <https://community.icann.org/download/attachments/48347119/To%20account.pdf?version=1&modificationDate=1405373073000&api=v2>
>>
>>
>> TAKING INTERNET GOVERNANCE ECOLOGY AT ITS WORD: Garth Graham June 10, 
>> 2014
>> https://community.icann.org/download/attachments/48343654/ecology%20realized.pdf?version=1&modificationDate=1402436268000&api=v2 
>> <https://community.icann.org/download/attachments/48343654/ecology%20realized.pdf?version=1&modificationDate=1402436268000&api=v2>
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>> GG
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