Dear colleagues, For the past couple of years, we have been providing you additional materials that can be used to inform policymakers and other local stakeholders about key Internet issues, we will continue the release of policy briefs throughout this year. The goal of these briefing papers is to provide a more specific Internet Society perspective, including the guiding principles we hold important for addressing various issues. For this year, many of these paper will be driven by our focus on our campaigns - IoT, Community Networks, MANRS and the Multistakeholder model. Today, however, we are inviting you to preview our paper on Innovative Licensing for Community Networks (please to bear in mind that this paper is limited only to community networks). You can view PDF versions at: isoc.app.box.com/folder/4696046102 <http://isoc.app.box.com/folder/4696046102> <https://isoc.app.box.com/folder/4696046102> During this preview period, which will run until *March 30, 2018** *we would be particularly interested in your input on the following: 1. As "briefing papers" the aim has been to keep the overviews concise, while providing links to more in depth information. At the same time, however, we would like to know: Are there any /major/ points that we missed in the coverage of the issues? /We would appreciate if you could use the "Comment" function in Box to provide your feedback on the relevant papers. The Comment field can be seen to the right of each document preview in Box./ 2. The papers have been written so they would be relevant on a global basis, but could be used as a base to tailor local positions. The online version will ideally have a "Regional Considerations" section that we would like to populate with information, contributed by our Chapters and members, about how these policy issues are addressed in different regions of the world. We would be interested in knowing if Chapters or members would be interested in contributing to such a section. Due to our participation at WSIS next week, where we will be talking about community networks as one of the means to connect the unconnected in remote and underserved areas, we also plan to publish this as a discussion paper for wider consumption and input. For those of you attending WSIS, please help us by sharing this paper. We welcome your comments and look forward to speaking with you more about all of these policy and Internet governance throughout the year. The papers will eventually be made available on-line in both HTML and PDF format at http://www.internetsociety.org/policybriefs. Same as last year, while they will initially be posted in English, a Spanish and French version of each document will also be produced. Best Konstantinos ------------------------------ komaitis(a)isoc.org <mailto:komaitis@isoc.org> Director, Policy Development