<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I very much like Evan’s concept of a “Best Practices” document that has been generated by the Chapters after the Council has been formed.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">John</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 15, 2014, at 10:47 AM, Evan Leibovitch <<a href="mailto:evan@telly.org" class="">evan@telly.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif">What I have seen in this thread is the makings of a Best Practises document -- an evolution of Eric's FAQ suggestion -- to guide Chapters when selecting their delegates.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif">I want to do as little as possible to impede on the ability of each Chapter to send the person who will best(*) represent them. IMO, throughout ISOC and especially for the CAC, bottom-up initiative should take precedence over top-down regulation. The CAC must reflect what chapters are and what they want, not on what we wish them to be.<br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif">(*) - "best", here, incorporates a number of criteria, some local, but also guided by the Council's global needs as we can express in a Best Practices doc. It is here where we can emphasize that experience is only one of the necessary criteria; new perspectives and other forms of diversity are also vital.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif">Cheers,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif">- Evan</div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><br class=""></div>
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