Board of Trustees
2005 Board Election
Candidates Forum
Welcome to the ISOC Board of Trustees 2005 Candidates Forum.
Candidates for both elections (i.e. elections to the Chapters’ Trustee position and Organizational Member Trustee positions) will engage here in an open discussion of issues of concern to the Internet community and the Internet Society.
Internet Society members who wish to raise issues for the candidates to discuss should forward their suggested topics and questions to elections@isoc.org. The topics will be moderated by the Election Committee and presented to the candidates in the course of the forum.
Questions and comments will be accepted until 2359 GMT on June 24th, 2005. It will be viewable after that but there will be no more postings.
Question 1: Past/Future (George Sadowsky)
Question 2: Pillars (George Sadowsky)
Comments (Daniel Karrenberg)
Trend 1: The Internet has become a global utility and is destined to be
a carrier replacing existing communications networks.[...]
Comments (Daniel Karrenberg)
Trend 2: The Internet is designed to be dumb; it just provides a
fabric for computers and other devices to communicate. [...]
Question 1: Past/Future (Veni Markovski)
ISOC needs a change, today. It must have a future, and the future is not being stuck in the standards only, but take the lead in the public policy. Together, we can do that. [...]
Question 2: Pillars (Veni Markovski)
ISOC has done, and continues to do great job in the Standards Pillar. It has, however, substantial lack of work in the Policy pillar.[...]
Question 1: Past/Future (Glenn Ricart)
In 1992, the Internet Society was formed with three great directions in mind. [...]
Question 2: Pillars (Glenn Ricart)
I believe that the three activities represented by the three pillars of standards, education, and policy are still very important, but [...]
Comments [Richard St. Clair]
No matter how you classify ISOC, or define it's charter or mission
statements, and no matter what questions you ask of its future, or
current challenges, it all comes down to one thing: [...]
Question 1: Past/Future (David Isenberg)
... if something can be done in the middle of the Internet or equally well (or maybe even
worse) at its edge, do it at the edge. [...]
Question 2: Pillars (David Isenberg)
Standards: Go slow. Today's Internet works, it scales, it handles even the most complex applications. [...]
Comment (George Sadowsky)
Reacting to each other's postings [...]
Question 3: ISOC's most important goal in your mind is ... (George Sadowsky)
Question 4: Let's look at the chapter relationship in more detail (George Sadowsky)
Question 5: Intellectual Property Issues (George Sadowsky)
Reaction to Glenn Ricart's comments on "Pillars" question (David Isenberg)
Glenn Ricart's " writes wisely of the three ISOC pillars, but I believe
that he under-emphasizes one thing. [...]
Question 6: What is your view of the "Internet Governance" issue? (George Sadowsky)
Question 7: .org and the Public Interest Registry (George Sadowsky)
Response to David Isenberg's reaction to my comments on "Pillars" question (Glenn Ricart) [...]
Question 3: ISOC's most important goal (Glenn Ricart)
I prefer to think of ISOC as having several complementary goals as noted in my previous responses.
[...]
Response to question 4 (Glenn Ricart)
I believe that "all politics is local" [...]
Response to question 5 (Glenn Ricart)
New technology has been a threat to copyright for centuries. [...]
Response to question 6 (Glenn Ricart)
Governments are designed to respond to the needs of their citizens... [...]
Response to question 7 (Glenn Ricart)
I am currently sit on both the ISOC and PIR Boards and chair the joint ISOC-PIR committee. [...]
Response to question 3 (Veni Markovski)
I can answer that question with one word: FREE(DOM). [...]
Response to question 4 (Veni Markovski)
The single greatest challenge is the lack of good relationship. [...]
Response to question 5 (Veni Markovski)
I think ISOC should support the CreativeCommons concept. [...]
Response to question 6 (Veni Markovski)
Both me and ISOC-Bulgaria have been very active in the WSIS work. [...]
Response to question 7 (Veni Markovski)
I think that ISOC needs to start working on fulfilling all promises given throughout the bid for the .org. [...]
Response to question 1 (Alex Corenthin)
The ISOC responses of the major changes of the Internet are, in my point of view, mainly focused on the technical issues (Internet II, IPv6, DNS ). [...]
Response to question 2 (Alex Corenthin)
The three pillars of ISOC remain, in my point of view, restrictive in comparison with the problems now appearing within the development of the Internet in the world. [...]
Response to question 3 (Alex Corenthin)
Universal access, the safeguarding of the identities and socio cultural specificities of the individuals seems me to be one of the major challenges of ISOC in the years to come. [...]
Response to question 4 (Alex Corenthin)
ISOC organisation need to be reviewed, in order to take in account the geographical representation and the linguistic specificities, of the chapters, in order to ensure a better communication and interaction between them and the HQ. [...]
Response to question 5 (Alex Corenthin)
The developing countries needs to continuously face the cost of the proprietary software to ensure to the citizen an equitable access to the information technology. [...]
Comments on Veni response to Question 4 (Alex Corenthin)
I dont agree with Veni in his analysis, [...]
Response to Comments on Veni response to Question 4 (Veni Markovski)
While you make quite a few points about Africa, which of course you know
much better than me - a natural fact considering your involvement in the
Senegal and African ISOC chapters activities, I have a couple of comments:
[...]
Question 8: Governance of ISOC (George Sadowsky)
Question 9: What place education for Africans within ISOC? (George Sadowsky)
Response to question 8 (Veni Markovski)
I believe we need to find a way for equal representation. [...]
Response to question 9 (Veni Markovski)
That's a perfect question to show how the chapters can work with the ISOC v Reston and ISOC-Geneva office. [...]
Some comments taking into account questions 2-9. (Daniel Karrenberg)
Support for the IETF is an essential ISOC activity. [...]
Response to question 6 (Alex Corenthin)
The Internet Governance issue is the major challenge for the citizens.. [...]
Response to question 8 (Alex Corenthin)
The difficulties for a global organisation like ISOC, is to define the membership rules, to ensure a democratic representation of all members in the boards. [...]
Question 10: Challenges (Rosa Delgado)
Response to question 8 (Glenn Ricart)
ISOC central currently doesn't have a constituency model. [...]
Response to question 9 (Glenn Ricart)
I believe that ISOC definitely has a continuing technical education role, especially in Africa. [...]
Trustee Candidate's Question #3 (David Isenberg)
Strengthening the Global Internet Community should be the most important single task of ISOC.[...]
Trustee Candidate's Question #4 (David Isenberg)
I strongly believe that ISOC should be a global organization.
[...]
Trustee Candidate's Question #5 (David Isenberg)
Regarding intellectual Property issues -- the other IP -- indeed, the Internet changes everything. [...]
Trustee Candidate's Question #6 (David Isenberg)
Internet governance will be on the table for decades.
[...]
Trustee Candidate Question #7 (David Isenberg)
As a Trustee, I'll look forward to learning about how .org and PIR works, and approach issues with an open mind . . .
[...]
Response to question 10 (Glenn Ricart)
ISOC's top 3 challenges are, I believe: [...]
Withdrawal from Marilyn Cade
Comment: The Candidates Forum is now closed to further input. (George Sadowsky)
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