Re: Welcome / introductions

Thanks a lot for convening this timely group, Mark.

My name is Farzaneh Badi(e)i (you might have seen my last name around as
Badii which is my favorite transliteration but passport officials didn't
agree). I have been involved with research and scholarly work related to
Internet governance for over a decade. I have recently launched my own
initiative  called Digital Medusa which focuses on designing and
researching governance and contributing to collective action.  Throughout
my career I have focused on governance of  Internet infrastructure and have
done some work on social media platforms, also worked at the UN Internet
governance forum, and was involved with  ICANN (as a part of a
noncommercial stakeholder group). I received my PhD from Hamburg uni in
Europe, was a scholar at HIIG (Berlin) and Georgia Tech and Yale Law
School. I did some research on IETF and co-authored two papers about human
rights and protocols.

 I am a firm believer in an open, interconnected, global Internet. I am
very skeptical about regulation but I can see that sometimes it has some
positive effects (like the GDPR). But we need to be more in dialogue with
the governments and regulators to ensure the regulations preserve the open
interconnected global nature of the Internet. I am one of the co-chairs of
the Christchurch Call advisory Network, a civil society network. The
Christchurch Call was convened by the NZ and FR governments to eradicate
violent extremist content online. At CC I am also trying to understand and
discuss how regulations and initiatives that combat
disinformation/terrorist content could potentially affect the Internet
interoperability and openness and try to find ways that minimizes harm but
also preserve those attributes. I am also engaged with Global Internet
Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT) working groups and co-authored a blog
about how mandating upload filters through initiatives like GIFCT  might
affect Internet architecture
<https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20201113/14504145706/upload-filters-internet-architecture-whats-there-to-like.shtml>.
I
think the problem goes beyond the Christchurch Call and GIFCT, there are
many more initiatives that could affect the Internet and the web which I
look forward to exploring here.

I am based in NYC, USA.

Best

*Farzaneh Badiei*

*Website:* https://digitalmedusa.org/








On Wed, Nov 24, 2021 at 12:49 AM Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> wrote:

> Hello everyone. Welcome to the Community Group!
>
> We're just getting started, so please excuse the quiet while we wait for
> people to join and allow the Americans their holiday. I'm aiming to hold an
> online meeting before the end of the year, so that we can start discussing
> how the group will function and what we want to focus on first.
>
> However, it'd first be good to get to know each other.  Please send an
> e-mail introducing yourself, including:
>
> * A brief summary of your background
> * Why you're participating in this group
> * Where you call home (so we can try to schedule meetings when it's not
> *too* painful for anyone)
>
> I'll start below.
>
> ---
>
> My name is Mark Nottingham, and I'm one of the folks who supported
> formation of this Community Group and coordinated drafting of the charter.
>
> I've worked in Internet and Web standards for more than 20 years, having
> chaired a few different groups (including HTTP and QUIC), authoring many
> RFCs (including the most recent revision of HTTP), and also being a member
> of the W3C Technical Architecture Group and Internet Architecture Board.  I
> currently work for Fastly, a US-based Content Delivery Network, and I'm
> also working on a Graduate Diploma in Communications Law at Melbourne Law
> School.
>
> I'm excited about combining architecturally sound, open specifications
> with the potential for a legal mandate from regulators -- while there are
> many risks, there are also opportunities to improve the Internet in ways
> that haven't been possible to date.
>
> I'm located in Melbourne, Australia.
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> P.S. If you haven't seen the group home page, please take a look at:
> https://interop-remedies-cg.github.io
>
> --
> Mark Nottingham   https://www.mnot.net/
>
>
>