[ga] More on current ISOC activities

[DannyYounger@cs.com]

Subj:    [Discuss] What does this say about the current ISOC?
Date:   6/2/02 5:12:48 PM Eastern Daylight Time
From:   lucia@lrw.net (Lucia Ruedenberg Wright)
Sender: discuss-admin@ISOC-NY.org
To: st.amour@bluewin.ch, isoc-board@isoc.org
CC: isoc-chapters-presidents@www.isoc.org, 
isoc-chapters-discuss@www.isoc.org, ECC-Council@isoc-ecc.org, 
discuss@ISOC-NY.org, dcisoc-steering-l-members@dcisoc.org, jrh29@columbia.edu 
(Jay Robert Hauben), bod@ISOC-NY.org


As president of ISOC-NY, I am registering a complaint that journalists
from the publication _Amateur Computerist_ in New York, are being denied
press access to INET2002. The following report was posted to
discuss@isoc-n.org. ISOC is displaying indifference to the grassroots
movement of internet users and appears to be for sale to corporate
interests only.

Lucia Wright
President, isoc-ny

> On Thu, 30 May 2002, Jay Hauben <jrh29@columbia.edu> wrote:
>
> > The Amateur Computerist began covering the Internet in 1988. In
> > September 1991 when the Wall Street Journal was going to carry one of
> > its first articles about the Internet, its reporter interviewed one of
> > the editors of the Amateur Computerist. In 1992 another editor,
> > Michael Hauben, was one of the founding members of the Internet
> > Society. The AC has covered the Internet and Internet related events
> > in depth. Its reporters attended and reported on INET96 and INET98.
> > Extensive coverage and criticism was given of ICANN. One of our
> > editors, Ronda Hauben, gave a talk at a meeting of ISOC-NY.
> >
> > All of the AC reportage comes from the viewpoint that the Internet is
> > a public treasure and needs the protection of the governments of the
> > world. But the AC welcomes a spectrum of viewpoints.
> >
> > But somehow the AC does not belong at INETs any more. The coverage of
> > INETs should be the exclusive domain of the mainstream media not the
> > public oriented media like the Amateur Computerist.
> >
> > The following email message was the response I received to the Amateur
> > Computerist's request to cover INET2002.
> >
> > Jay
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> > From: Melissa Byrd <mbyrd@foretec.com>
> > To: Jay Hauben <jrh29@columbia.edu>
> > Subject: Re: Press Passes Requested
> >
> > Dear Jay,
> >
> > Thank you for your interest in covering INET 2002.  Unfortunately, I
> > cannot approve your request for an INET 2002 press pass.  Due the
> > limited space this year, we must give preference to those media
> > outlets with the broadest and largest audiences, such as Newsweek, The
> > Wall St. Journal, CNET, etc.  However, I will put your name on our
> > waiting list and contact you if there is a last-minute cancellation.
> >
> > We do value your interest in our conference and hope you are still
> > able to attend INET 2002.
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > Melissa Byrd
> > Marketing Communications/INET 2002
> >
> > Foretec Seminars
> > 5 Commonwealth Road
> > Natick, MA 01760
> > (508) 650-4020 x224
> > MByrd@Foretec.com
> >
> > At 10:47 PM 5/20/02 -0400, you wrote:
> > >Dear Meissa,
> > >
> > >Thank you for your email message.
> > >
> > >You wrote:
> > >
> > >  Hi Jay,
> > > >
> > > > I would be more than happy to consider you for press registration,
> > > > however I am not familiar with your publication.  Could you
> > > > perhaps email me a copy
> > > > or the URL?  Also, please describe your distribution.
> > > >
> > >
> > >The wedsite for issues of the Amateur Computerist is:
> > >
> > >http://www.ais.org/~jrh/acn/text
> > >
> > >Perhaps you would be interested in our reports from previous INETs.
> > >For example part of our coverage of INET96 can be seen in Vol 7 no 2:
> > >
> > >http://www.ais.org/~jrh/acn/text/ACN7-2.txt
> > >
> > >Our distribution is via paper copies to libraries and at conferences,
> > >hearings and academic events; via email to a mailing list of
> > >subscribers and via announcements of the URL and table of contents for
> > >each new issue on mailing lists and Usenet newsgroups. We post
> > >individual articles to major mailing lists and newsgroups and
> > >encourage reposting and web posting of the articles.
> > >
> > >We have carried extensive discussion about Usenet, the Internet, ICANN
> > >and especially the social impact of the Net.
> > >
> > >Two web pages that say a bit more about the ACN can be seen at:
> > >
> > >http://www.ais.org/~jrh/acn/acnindex.html
> > >
> > >and
> > >
> > >http://www.columbia.edu/~hauben/acn/WhatIsACN.html
> > >
> > >I hope you will let me know your response to our request for press
> > >passes for INET2002 soon.
> > >
> > >Thank you.
> > >
> > >Take care.
> > >
> > >Jay Hauben
> >
> > Melissa Byrd
> > Marketing Communications
> >
> > Foretec Seminars
> > 5 Commonwealth Road
> > Natick, MA 01760
> > (508) 650-4020 x224
> > MByrd@Foretec.com
> >
> > Register today for INET 2002!
> > www.inet2002.org
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Discuss mailing list
> > Discuss@ISOC-NY.org
> > http://www.isoc-ny.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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