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clance@koro.connect.com.au (Kate Lance) writes:

>(This is being posted at the request of Hugh Irvine):

>In an attempt to stimulate some constructive debate and discussion relating
>to the Internet in Australia, I have prepared the following introduction to
>an organisation called the 'Internet Society of Australia'. The object of
>this exercise is to create a body with wide appeal and support to serve as
>a platform for informed and useful discussion of issues surrounding the
>Internet today.

Before a body can claim to represent the Internet in Australia it'll
need to cover a lot of ground - I'm immediately curious about how
ISOC-AU will relate to and distinguish itself from ACS, EFA, INTIAA and
the stronger regional bodies like WAIA. Would ISOC-AU take over any of
the infrastructure roles that aarnet^h^h^h^h^h^htelstranet presently
manages, and would it shoulder some of the thankless burdens like IP
registry that (hopefully) most people are now content to rationalise?

I'd also like to know a few things about ISOC-AU's political leanings.
The most pressing issue the net in Australia has to deal with right now
is regulation. Where would ISOC-AU stand on censorship, privacy, freedom
of speech, anonymity, cryptography and so on? Hugh might like to peek at
http://www.zip.com.au/~pete/ere.html for the closest thing we have here
to a consensual statement on such issues - one that so far has received
the nod from EFA, EFF & CPSR among others, and which has enjoyed regular
review by Australian and foreign net users for about 3 years. Would such
a document be commensurable with the context of ISOC-AU's activities?

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