Report 03/03/00
ISOCNZ Political Liaison Working Group
Report to Council 24 March 2000
This Working Group has held one meeting so far, on 9 February 2000. At this meeting terms of reference and an action plan were agreed as follows.
Objective
The primary objective of the Group's work is to get ISOCNZ into the political consciousness. In particular a key message is that the .nz delegation is in safe hands (this has become even more important in the light of more recent events).
We agreed that we should concentrate on getting information to a few key Ministers in the first instance, before broadening our scope to leading members of other parties and MPs in general.
Themes
Our campaign of information will be based on the following themes:
- Code of Practice
- GAC
- ICANN/international issues
- 0867
- Revenue & taxation
- WIPO/trademarks
- ISPs as Common Carriers
- Equitable access
We agreed that the WG should produce a set of multi-use information that can be (a) tailored to each audience, (b) easily kept up-to-date at regular and frequent intervals. The objective is that Ministers' and MPs' staff will be able to treat this as the fount of knowledge when they have to prepare a briefing etc. It will take the form of a loose-leaf binder with a number of tabs:-
| 1. | Introduction to ISOCNZ (who we are, .nz delegation etc) | D Farrar | |
| 2. | Overview of the Internet (history, statistics, benefits etc) | D Farrar | |
| 3. | Management of .nz - essential element of the national infrastructure, explanation of delegation, role of Domainz. | P O'Brien | |
| 4. | How does it work internationally? | P Dengate Thrush | |
| 5. | E-commerce and the "Knowledge Economy" | J Northover | |
| 6. | Legal Issues | J Higgins | |
| 7. | 0867 | J Higgins | |
| 8. | Social impact - access, equity, privacy, "Internet Bill of Rights", Code of Practice | A Mason | |
| 9. | Glossary of Terms | ALL | |
| 10. | References, including policy documents from the ITPU | Editor | |
| 11. | Index | Editor |
We also plan to produce more detailed papers on individual subjects. Initial candidates are tax, trademarks and WIPO.
Timetable
The deadline for first draft contributions to the above is 31 March. We will convene a second meeting of the Working Group in early April, with a view to final publication on 30 April.
Budget
We estimate that this project will need $2,000 for design and editing work.
Andrew McE Mason
© 2000 The Internet Society of New Zealand
Last updated 13 April 2000
