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ISOC Hires MPAA Executive Paul Beringer

Posted by timothy on from the interesting-choice dept.

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?'"

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  1. Welcome to the future by Fwipp · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Where "independent" and "objective" simply means "giving the bad as much airtime and consideration as the good."

    1. Re:Welcome to the future by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

      ISOC is an international body, with five large directories and hundreds of local chapters. ISOC America credibility has been outright destroyed by this move among the other ISOCs, and it is clear that it happened through the lobby in Washington DC. The New York chapter spoke strongly against it, but I very much doubt that anything short of a massive show of force by the non-American directories of ISOC and the non-corrupt american chapters of ISOC by outright and publicly expelling Paul Beringer and the entire DC chapter on the grounds of breach of the ISOC code of conduct and ethics will be enough to restore the ISOC good name.

      For those that think ISOC doesn't matter, ISOC *funds* the IETF, and the IETF is one of the most important engineering bodies behind the Internet (and the least problematic of them all).

      The ISOC code of ethics can be found here:http://www.isoc.org/members/codeconduct.shtml and it is NOT optional. You have to abide to it to be an ISOC member.

  2. Does this mean... by jamstar7 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ... we now have a case of the fox and a platoon of his buddies guarding the henhouse?

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    Understanding the scope of the problem is the first step on the path to true panic.