Same here, I participated in Inet'91 in Denmark when conversations about ISOC
were taking place, joined as individual member in 1992, and was the founder of
the Argentinean ISOC-AR Chapter in 1995.
My head hurts as well since I agree with you that ISOC since the beginning has
been inclusive of all sectors and I truly didn't know that some Civil Society
groups have a different view and opinion. Do you think this view from certain
groups is widespread or it is just a minority ?
-Jorge
On Nov 20, 2013, at 1:11 PM, Brian E Carpenter
<brian(_dot_)e(_dot_)carpenter(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com> wrote:
On 21/11/2013 00:13, Jorge Amodio wrote:
Thanks SM, very clear about ITU.
I really had a different perception about ISOC that's why I was asking,
didn't know that Civil Society does not feel comfortable with ISOC.
That statement makes my head hurt. Any time I attended meetings at the ITU
under the ISOC banner, I had to sit in the cheap seats at the back labelled
"Civil Society".
I remind you that ISOC has both organisational and individual members,
and many local chapters. Sure sounds like Civil Society to me. There may
be special interest groups, also part of Civil Society, who have different
views to ISOC, of course.
Brian (individual member of ISOC since 1992)