Dear Veni,
I africa also, the ISOC-chapters do a lot for the development of the
Internet as well has an important of building an african information
society .. Our colleagues Nii, Tarek and Pierre repectively from
ISOC-Ghana, ISOC-egypt and ISOC-Benin played a key role at
both National and International level.
Also, they was the first african involved in the ICANN process.
Hence, I strongly support the proposal of Veni to give the ISOC-
chapters the right of voting in our constituency.
Zakaria
On 8 May 00, at 16:58, veni markovski wrote:
>
> >On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 08:35:51PM +0900, Adam Peake wrote:
> > > Would someone please clarify the rule on ISOC Chapter membership,
> > > they can't join as voting members, right?
> > >
> > > What's are the reasons for this.
> >
> >Good question. The rights of ISOC chapters were traded away as a
> >political measure during the formation of the NCC. In some countries
> >the ISOC chapters are the best representative of interest in the
> >Internet in that country.
>
> Of course. Not only this - in cases like Bulgaria, ISOC-Bulgaris has
> filed a case in the Supreme Court against the government-proposed
> licensing of ISPs and has managed to achieve a victory. In Russia - on
> the contrary - noone dares to challenge the government. Now, the
> Russian section of ISOC will be able to vote, and we - won't. It seems
> unfair.
>
> > >From what I can see the relationship between ISOC chapters and ISOC
> > >per
> >se is quite variable, and it is probably the case that ISOC chapters
> >would be more inclined to vote on regional lines than the "ISOC party
> >line" (whatever that might be).
>
> Sure. Another reason why ISOC chapters should have the right to vote.
>
> regards,
> veni
>
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