[governance] FYI: Letter from Bulgarian Internet community to

[Milton L Mueller]

Nikola:
It is good to know that there is an independent group of Bulgarian Internet users.

ISOC has a rather checkered history when it comes to defending rights of individuals on the Internet. While there are many strong supporters of Internet freedom in its ranks, as well as dedicated technical veterans of the highest caliber, its international organizational staff and business connections often lead it in strange directions. And as they become more interconnected with authoritative Internet governance institutions, ISOC often pursues agendas that are....puzzling, to put it mildly. It is useful to recall in this context ISOC's role in promoting the discredited gTLD-MoU, which would have put WIPO and the ITU in a key governance role, and would have allowed WIPO and INTA to have almost untrammeled authority over resolving domain name trademark disputes. ICANN's UDRP, with all its flaws, was quite liberal compared to what ISOC, WIPO, INTA and ITU cooked up for us a dozen years ago.

Milton Mueller
Professor, Syracuse University School of Information Studies
XS4All Professor, Delft University of Technology
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