ISOC-DC - Latest Comments

Re: Robert McDowell: The U.N. Threat to Internet Freedom – WSJ.com

Michael Elling — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 07:21:56 -0000

What was the outcome of this effort?

Re: isoc6

ABdelaziz Derdouri — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 03:43:10 -0000

My name is Derdouri Abdelaziz and I teach cyber security at
Algiers National High School of Political Sciences. Unfortunately I cannot
attend to the March 21, 2012 discussion: Who Needs a Global Internet Regulator?

Is it possible please to let me know
how to have or to direct me where I can have a kind of assessment of the discussion?

Thank you very much

Sincerely

A Derdouri+213 (0) 661 490703+213 (0) 550 681000aderdouri@gmail.com

Re: ISOC-DC’s SOPA Obituary Roundtable Breakfast

Richard Bennett — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 22:12:30 -0000

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 27:

"1. Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits.

"2. Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author."

Something to think about.

Re: ISOC-DC TV

Veni — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 09:23:11 -0000

rhetoric question: would the social media have been enough, if the people were not ready for a change? In other words, let's not expect too much from social media, if the people are not willing to change... Would you agree?

Re: ISOC-DC TV

Veni — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 09:22:12 -0000

it is back!

Re: ISOC-DC TV

Veni — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 09:20:23 -0000

hm, streaming disappeared.

Re: ISOC-DC TV

Veni — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 08:59:56 -0000

great reception, good job, guys!

Re: Candidates

Bill Pierce — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 16:15:46 -0000

Just to note, ISOC and certainly ISOC-DC cannot be construed to represent the interests or views of its own membership much less those of the general Internet end-user. We are not a political action or trade group, or any form of lobby. What we can do is draw upon our considerable resources to educate and inform within the membership and beyond it. The paramount goal is that as issues emerge and evolve and as they engage legitimate political processes, they will be discussed and acted upon within a more interested and knowledgeable community.

Bill Pierce
member ISOC-DC

Re: Internet Society Reconfirms Support for World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) with $1 Million Donation

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Re: ISOC Monthly Newsletter – Internet Society Launches Suite of Identity Management Tools

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Re: ‘Future Internet’ Information Meeting – Sponsored by CISE/NSF and IPTO/DARPA, July 29

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Re: FCC wants free broadband service, plus content filtering

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Re: Internet Society Reconfirms Support for World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) with $1 Million Donation

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Re: How Egypt Shutdown the Internet: Michael Nelson on the PBS Newshour

yahoo-4K7QQ6WLJRHUOF6HSCUTXGGH2A — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 23:35:31 -0000

Thanks for posting the feed. Good discussion.

Judith

Re: About Egypt, ISOC-Egypt, and Dr. Tarek Kamel

Mohamed Yassin — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 13:31:31 -0000

As an Egyptian, I completely agree with what Ramy Shahin wrote except for the part " how Tarek Kamel's team contributed to the Egyptian IT infrastructure". I would like to ask - AT WHAT COST? The corruption and political agendas associated with the disastrous free internet model, submarine cable, DSL initiative failure, etc.... It is worth noting that the Internet Society of Egypt has been suspended when Tarek started his way through politics (since 1999) .

The internet shutdown is a breach to one of the human rights fundamentals (right to know). The egyptian treasury lost 90 million dollars and also undermined the outsourcing indusrty.

Re: About Egypt, ISOC-Egypt, and Dr. Tarek Kamel

Ramy Shahin — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 12:46:12 -0000

I don't want to spark a debate here, but I find any sympathy with Dr. Kamel's position in this whole crisis an insult to 80 million Egyptians to say the least. Being an Egyptian software engineer, I know how Tarek Kamel's team contributed to the Egyptian IT infrastructure. However, as a participant in the Egyptian revolution (yes, you can call it a revolution), I find his position a disgrace to the Egyptian IT community. We totally understand he had no say in the internet shutdown. Still, we expected him to have the decency to resign when he was ordered to disconnect Egyptians from each other and from the rest of the world. Instead, he stayed in his position, and even worse, he accepted the same position in the newly formed government.

The internet shutdown in Egypt was mainly ordered to cover up the crimes committed against demonstrators. Videos and eye-witness testimonies are now slowly leaking into cyberspace. Now you can find youtube videos of police snipers shooting at demonstrators, police vans ramming into crowds killing and injuring dozens, and blankets of tear-gas covering neighborhoods of Cairo and other Egyptian cities. The internet shutdown was intended at keeping those videos and testimonies away from the whole world for as long as possible until things settle down.

Dr. Tarek Kamel voluntarily chose to be, and to stay, part of a Fascist government that pays no respect what so ever to its people. Egypt is still a dictatorship (we are working on changing this), so Egyptians have no say in appointing their ministers. We still hope that the international community (political, technical, scientific or cultural) would have a clear enough conscience to know who to support.

Re: About ISOC & ISOC DC

Gene Gaines — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 13:07:28 -0000

Barry, Where do you live? In Fairfax County, Virginia, we have a wonderful project, providing broadband Internet access at home to low-income students. This involves three functions: (1) A free, refurbished computer with XP Pro and Office, (2) free-installation $11 per month high-speed Internet cable access at home, and (3) free 24-hour technical support. We have completed 2 successful pilots, now are working on our first school - a middle school with about 300 low-income students now without computers. This project is a blast! More info, email gene.gaines@gainesgroup.com

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Re: About ISOC & ISOC DC

Anonimous — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 01:46:49 -0000

It look like the ISOC of Puerto Rico is better than this?

Re: As Facebook Takes Over the World | Zej Media

Mark Taylor — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 12:42:33 -0000

Yes I agree these sitesseem to be walled in , but isn't that to protect your privacy. How do we determine how much information to give away. The privacy policies enacted by most companys have a lot of loopholes...

Re: About ISOC & ISOC DC

Barry — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 12:41:22 -0000

Sorry to say, it doesn't look like there's a lot of folks here. Maybe I just can't see them before joining... but joining is pointless if there's no one home. So... you might want to have a daily bullet-point area (near the top) so folks can decide if they'd like to join up or not.

I am interested in advocacy of free internet access (especially for low-income and disabled - especially veterans - or any other underserved populations) as a public service condition of any company wanting the right to sell access to those who can afford it.

A model for this might be Lawrence Free Net in Lawrence, Kansas. A city-wide network allows anyone to access the web from any wireless capable computer. The user can pay a daily fee, a monthly fee or submit an application to get altogether free service - without being limited to slow connections or time constraints. It's worth examining.

Of course I'm not sure if this is an issue with ISOC, or even if you already have something in the works. If so, I don't see it. I only see one post, 8-months ago, and that is not encouraging.

Re: IPv6 – What is it, why is it important, and who is in charge?

David Vyorst — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 18:01:37 -0000

Absolutely! Thanks!

Re: IPv6 – What is it, why is it important, and who is in charge?

Veni Markovski — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 17:23:17 -0000

It is good to mention that this is now an official information document at the ITU: http://www.itu.int/dms_pub/itu...