[IIU] Re: [ILUG] OT But esat unlimited has been scrapped

[Alex French]

Perhaps IIU, or some of its people are interested in setting up a local 
ISOC chapter? There is no operational Irish chapter at the moment (Alex 
Gogan made a stab at setting on up a few years ago). ISOC carries much 
international weight, and Ireland is one of the few civilized countries not 
to have a chapter.

An ISOC UK rep will be in Dublin in a couple of weeks if anyone's 
interested in meeting him to discuss.

Alex.


At 12:00 27/03/2001, Justin Mason wrote:

>(background for IIU subscribers -- this is in response to a thread on ILUG
>about organising a government petition regarding the (lousy) high-speed
>access situation in Ireland.)
>
>Ruairi Newman said:
>
> > However, you seem to know more about the IIU than I do, so perhaps you
> > could answer some questions for me?
> >
> > a)  Does the IIU have any formal structure or is it just a mailing list?
> >
> > b)  If there is a formal structure, what does it consist of?
>
>IIU is just a mailing list, with no official structure (at the moment at
>least).  We haven't even had a POTD yet ;)   BTW for some of the
>subscribers at least, the lack of official status may be an advantage.
>
>IMHO:
>
>   a) it'd be cool if we could sort out something on a wider scale as well,
>   e.g.  a simple online petition along those lines, which can be widely
>   posted in many different fora.  Perhaps the Antefacto guy who previously
>   put up a Cablelink petition on the web, would be interested in setting
>   up a similar one oriented towards petitioning the govt.
>
>   b) it's more on-topic for IIU than for ILUG.  But then, ILUG is a much
>   more organised and "official" setup, whereas IIU is pretty lightweight.
>
>   c) I'm totally swamped, so I'll be out of the loop on this one anyway :(
>
>--j.
>
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