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ISOC Hires MPAA Executive Paul Beringer
First time accepted submitter imwilder writes "The Internet Society has hired Paul Beringer to head up its operations in North America. Beringer was formerly Chief Technology Policy Officer for the MPAA, and Executive Director of Internet and Technology Policy for Verizon Corporate Services. Does this challenge the notion that ISOC is a 'trusted, independent source of Internet leadership?'"
How does one go about boycotting this?
Where "independent" and "objective" simply means "giving the bad as much airtime and consideration as the good."
Group Of People That Dont Matter sounds better. their description sounds like a secret society.
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... we now have a case of the fox and a platoon of his buddies guarding the henhouse?
Understanding the scope of the problem is the first step on the path to true panic.
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Since I've never heard of the ISOC in the first place, I'd say the answer is no, since the notion didn't exist in the first place.
spells it 'Brigner'
so, um, yeah - how'd that beard-trimming go?
He was only at the MPAA for a year, and from what I hear, that was no accident. I know people who know him, and they say that he understands the Internet and didn't agree with what the MPAA was doing, and was described to me as "one of the good guys." We shall see, but he won't last long at ISOC if he isn't.
Not Beringer, Brigner.
It means nothing to an executive which house it is in. They are loyal to the paycheck...nothing more. A true psychopathic occupation.
Does this challenge the notion that ISOC is a 'trusted, independent source of Internet leadership?'
Why would you think it does? Anyone who's qualified for any sort of leadership position is going to have past experience with some company or group. When you hire someone, you don't magically become a shill of that person's past employer.
You'd still be a better choice than this MPAA shill.
Awesome. Michael Bay will literally own you.
so, um, yeah - how'd that beard-trimming go?
Is that a euphemism for cunnilingus?
If you want news from today, you have to come back tomorrow.
Our CRTC is run by former executives from our incumbents...
Yes it is.
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Corruption is convincing someone that the selfless ideal is the same as their selfish ideal.
It is a hell of a gamble to hire such highly questionable person for this job. Their arguments have to be really very good to do this. I personally do not trust anyone hired or anything owned by one of the **AA's.
You got the name wrong.
I have known Paul Brigner since the 1990s and he is one of the most ethical, intelligent, and fair minded people I know. I expect he brought some of that to the MPAA - although I do not actually know what his impact there was. I do know that he is deserving of the benefit of the doubt, and I anticipate that he will be thoughtful, progressive, and fair-minded in his new position at ISOC. And I say this as someone who strongly supports Internet freedom and openness.
Anybody who has seen both Sean Doran's brilliant screed "It Seeks Overall Control" and watched the IAHC committee where ISOC made the deal with the devil for control of the DNS which it then presented to the USG as the final solution, can not be surprised at this.
After the US government threatened to make Jon Postel "go away" for his ideas about expanding the DNS to make NSI "one of many" registires (instead of the current plan to have 10,000 sales agents for .com) per the original NSF cooperative agreement with NSI/General Atomics/ATT, the USG (really Commerce) made their own version of IANA run by intellectual property lawyers, starting at the top with WIPO from Geneva being involved in the earliest secret (!) meetings about the DNS delivered on a platter by ISOC; this was initiated when Don Heath (ISOC) ran into Albert Tramposch (WIPO) and Bob Shaw (ITU) at an OECD workshop in Ottawa at about the time Jon was trying to expand the DNS namespace around the time the Vint Cerf's FNCAC advised the NSF to instruct NSI to began charging for domains.
ISOC, and really any of these organizations that start with an "I" are really a "you scratch my back I'll scratch yours" old boys club - look at their salaries on their organizations tax forms, they're 2 to 5 times for equivalent government work and lets face it if you saw FCC staffers in kayaks at a five star hotel Costa Rica claiming it was "bottom up multistakeholder consensus making" - one of four junkets a year - heads would roll and never mind the FCC has stated the multistakeholder model is rubbish.
But how else can they let the intellectual property crowd and speculators have as much as a say as all those people that actually own and operate nameservers?
Need Mercedes parts ?
I once thought they were the good guys, I guess I was wrong. You don't hire evil, unless you are evil. If they are not evil, they should have just shut their doors and closed down rather than do this.
The AC was actually a lot more convincing than the post that he/she was replying to.
If that Paul is both a good guy and a bad guy, then at best he's an arms dealer playing both sides. And since he's a lawyer, that's undoubtedly exactly what he's doing. It's what lawyers do.
Does this challenge the notion that ISOC is a 'trusted, independent source of Internet leadership?'
Is what now?
The three laws of thermodynamics:(1) You can't win. (2) You can't break even. (3) You can't even quit.
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