Re: ISOC-IL representative in the URI CG

I agree with Leslie in the sense that I think it would
be good to check with the prospective participant to
make sure that his expectations reasonably match with
the purpose of the group. If that's the case, then I
think this participation would be fine.

Regards,    Martin.

At 10:28 03/06/16 -0500, Dan Connolly wrote:

>I'm still interested in opinions on this matter.
>I gather the original message caught some of you
>at a bad time, so here it is again.
>
>Please do reply. I don't think we
>need a teleconference to discuss this, but I
>do need at least a few explicit replies.
>
>On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 14:02, Dan Connolly wrote:
> > The Israel Internet Association (http://www.isoc.org.il)
> > is a W3C member. Their advisory committee representative
> > has asked that they be represented in the URI CG
> > by Mr. Nahum Korda; details about what ISOC-IL does
> > and how it relates to this CG are below.
> >
> > You may recall...
> >
> >   "Membership of the group consists of liaisons from the
> >   various related activities. The URI CG may decide
> >   (by consensus) to add relationships."
> >   -- http://www.w3.org/2001/12/URI/#Membership
> >
> > I talked with my co-chair, Norm, about mechanisms for
> > making such a decision... a telcon seems like overkill...
> > we agreed that the chair can put a question to the group;
> > if it's seconded and nobody objects after a week or so,
> > we'll announce that we've achieved consensus.
> >
> > So... I propose that Mr. Korda join us to represent
> > ISOC-IL. Anybody else think this is a good idea?
> > Or a bad idea?
> >
> >
> > Details from ISOC-IL:
> >
> > [[[[
> > Regarding the Israel Internet Association (http://www.isoc.org.il ):
> > We have national responsibilities regarding the Internet and Information
> > Society in Israel.
> > We maintain the IIX (Israel Internet exchange) and are in charge of
> > domain name
> > registration under the TLD .IL. We make every effort to update and
> > involve relevant
> > academic, governmental, industrial, professional and other public bodies
> > on Internet
> > developments. We represent Israel in the main relevant international
> > bodies dealing
> > with Internet governance and protocols development.
> > Last year we have organized a Semantic Web seminar in cooperation with
> > the European
> > Commission. Almost all relevant academic and professional bodies in
> > Israel sponsored this
> > initiative. Most of them were, until then, not very much aware of the
> > relevance of the Semantic
> > Web (see: http://www.ejewish.info/reka/sw).
> >
> >
> > Regarding the URI initiative coordinating group:
> > Following your announcement of the renewal of the W3C URI activity I
> > have contacted some
> > of the main schema maintainers in Israel: the officer in charge of
> > numbering at the Ministry
> > of Communication; the intelligent Identity Card initiative at the
> > Ministry of Finance; the ISBN
> > registrar in Israel; the Israel Bar Code Association and others. I had
> > the pleasure to prepare
> > a brief and introduce ENUM and the RFC2806 and some of the projects
> > implementing it to
> > the relevant officer at the Ministry of Communication.
> > The Board of the Israel Internet Association decided that the renewed
> > URI initiative of the W3C
> > is of enough importance to warrant the necessary allocation of resources
> > for our active involvement.
> > We intend to participate actively in the initiative. We will continue
> > and have the relevant bodies in
> > Israel aware of its strategic implications and the need to embed it in
> > their schema development
> > work plans.
> > We are hiring Mr. Nahum Korda for this purpose. He is competent for the
> > task and has some
> > suggestions regarding URI development. I am sure that he is able to make
> > a significant
> > contribution and after consulting the latest documents he will expand on
> > that.
> > I am quite sure that, if necessary, our Board will provide for the
> > involvement of other paid
> > consultants in this process.
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Dov
> >
> > Dov Winer
> > W3C AC Representative for the
> > Israel Internet Association $BK(BISOC-IL
> > dovw@isoc.org.il
> > ]]]]
>
>--
>Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/

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