ISOC-IL representative in the URI CG

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:

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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 – ISOC-IL
dovw@isoc.org.il
]]]]


-- 
Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/

Received on Thursday, 29 May 2003 15:02:35 UTC