Internet Society Pakistan Chapter application to become a member organization of the ALAC at ICANN

[Fouad Bajwa]

Greetings from Seoul,

I'm participating as a Fellow in the ICANN Annual Meetings in Seoul
http://public.icann.org and following on proceedings participating in
some key meetings.

For those that may not be aware of ICANN, the Internet Corporation for
Assigned Names and Numbers, a non-profit corporation that oversees a
number of Internet-related tasks including responsibility for Internet
Protocol (IP) address space allocation, protocol identifier
assignment, generic (gTLD) and country code (ccTLD) top-level domain
name system management, and root server system management functions.
More generically, ICANN is responsible for managing the assignment of
domain names and IP addresses. ICANN's primary principles of operation
have been described as helping preserve the operational stability of
the Internet; to promote competition; to achieve broad representation
of global Internet community; and to develop policies appropriate to
its mission through bottom-up, consensus-based processes.

There are many ways to engage with ICANN in the multilateral Internet
Governance policy making and regulation environment and countries
should participate actively to keep their Internet environment open
for inclusive participation of Government, Academia, Research,
Business and Civil Society participation and fair competition.

Now the issue, I came across this application from Internet Society of
Pakistan Chapter (http://www.isoc.org/chapters or
http://www.isoc.org/isoc/chapters/list.php?region=worldwide&status=A)
to the ICANN At-Large (http://www.atlarge.icann.org/applications).

I wanted to enquire from the Pakistan Telecom Grid and the Pakistan
ICT Policy Monitor Members whether there are any members of ISOC
Pakistan from them and do they believe that ISOC-Pakistan is
representative, open and inclusive to represent the interests of
individual Internet users at the ICANN? This is an important global
multilateral policy making issue that effects your country's IT Policy
Making, the Internet Governance Environment and the future of the Name
Space in the country.

For such loosely positioned groups, its necessary that the Pakistani
Internet Community is aware of the public and global participation of
such groups and whether these groups are true representatives of the
people of the country?

You are all free to share your comments and requested to check and
join this organization.

The Internet Society ISOC www.isoc.org is an international
organization that comprises of people and organizations that have made
the Internet and manage what we see today of which I have been a
member for many years and am also a Fellow. Membership is free and you
should join too.

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[Faisal Khan]

ISOC is in Pakistan. Other than having a pretty (well not so pretty
page), they haven't done much. Even writing just that phrase took a
leap of faith.

If you can manage to get / setup a proper ISOC chapter in PK, (people
can do that regionally, their terms and conditions for setting up the
Chapter is very well defined), it will be a good thing.

I personally (read again, it says personally) believe that the only
reason the dude who got the ISOC chapter was so it could be polished
somewhere on his card or resume. Other than that, its been collecting
dust.

Best,

FK

[Aftab Siddiqui]

 

 

In my Personal opinion there is NO remarkable representation of Pakistan in any of the forum like ICANN, APNIC or anyother golbal forum whether its ISOC or PKNIC or any other society. All due respect to PASHA and other software base societies/org which have done great work.

 

Specifically talking about ISOC, I guess this is the best time to take the initiative.

Regards,

Aftab A. Siddiqui

[Fouad Bajwa]

Okay then here is the proposal. I have been invited to bring Pakistan
into the ALAC through the APARALO, I will detail you on these tomorrow
as I am in the team I contribute to the ICANN in.

I am planning on bringing all of you that would volunteer when I share
the opportunities in to various areas based on your respective
experiences and roles in the field of Internet from Public Policy
Making to Technical issues such as ccTLDs, gTLDs, IDNs, IPv6 and so
forth.

My role is clear and specified, I represent and work for the
Non-Commercial Users and that is where I am serving, volunteering and
taking forward. I am not your typical case to run a family business in
global Internet policy.

For ISOC, I will be in discussion with ISOC people directly as they
are here and and let me see what I can come back to all of you with.

[Arsalan Ahmed]

Agreed Aftab.
Even I remember meeting the indian IT ministry people at such forums while there was no one from Pakistan. I think we should think other than financial/business impact of such forums and start participating in policy decisions.

Regards
Arsalan Ahmed