[ga] Re: [Ecommerce] Who will house the Internet Governance Forum?

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jamie and all,

Yes in some ways this is strange indeed.  Yet it has been known that
the ISOC is short on funding.  However as they did away with individual
membership the ISOC's creditability as a representative or any but a
tiny fragment of stakeholders/users would in part explain it's difficulty

as a non profit organization to garner donations sufficient enough to
be self sustaining.

Hence perhaps there is an effort afoot to aid the ISOC in addressing
it's funding efforts in similar fashion as ICANN has done with "Fees"
and "Fee structure" for domain registration regarding the Verisign
settlement.

James Love wrote:

> This is pretty strange.  First the ITU and the UN were proposed to
> organize and host the Internet Governance Forum.  And then a strong
> pitch was made for it  be done by ISOC, with extra money flowing to
> ISOC for this task.  If you look at the board members for ISOC, you
> don't find any from developing countries, and you find a lot of
> overlap with ICANN board members (current and past), as well as ICANN
> regulated registrars.   The US is now speaking, they have "the
> highest regard" for the Internet Society.   Expert opinions.   Canada
> and US now backing ISOC.     It is an other US based non-profit, with
> some foreign chapters.  Here is the board of trustees.   Jamie
>
> http://www.isoc.org/isoc/general/trustees/board.shtml
>
> Board of Trustees
> 2005-2006
>
> Fred Baker *
> <fred@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Rosa M. Delgado
> <rosa@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Lynn St. Amour*
> <St.Amour@xxxxxxxx>
>
> Glenn Ricart *
> <glenn.ricart@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Veni Markovski
> <veni@xxxxxxxx>
>
> Daniel Karrenberg *
> <daniel.karrenberg@xxxxxxxx>
> NETHERLANDS
>
> Pindar Wong
> <pindar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Erik Huizer
> <Erik.Huizer@xxxxxx>
>
> Desirée Miloshevic
> <dmiloshevic@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Patrick Vande Walle *
> <patrick@xxxxxxx>
>
> Steve Crocker *
> <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Stephen Squires
> SLSq@xxxxxx>
>
> Margaret Wasserman
> <margaret@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Scott Bradner
> <sob@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
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