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    <p>HI Todd,</p>
    <p>I just got one email from the Chapter delegates list on Connect
      and not the email version of it. Glenn perhaps you are only
      subscribed to the email Chapter Delegates and not the Connect
      version of it<br>
    </p>
    <p>Best,</p>
    <p>Judith<br>
    </p>
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Hellerstein & Associates
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Phone: (202) 362-5139  Skype ID: judithhellerstein
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/28/2017 9:00 AM, Todd M. Tolbert
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        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Hi
            Saul, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">I’m
            confused. To my knowledge there has been exactly one email
            campaign sent (just today) about fundraising for ISOC. If
            you have another one, please forward to me as I would love
            to see it and investigate where it came from. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">It
            is not our intention to send every email (or any email other
            than a specific campaign) asking for donations. We do,
            however, send many informational emails that may ask for
            members to take action. But we will not specifically say
            that that action should be to donate. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Only
            this fundraising campaign that we imagine doing twice a year
            would do so.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">I
            hope that helps and look forward to receiving a forward of
            the email that you believe is asking for money.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Thank
            you,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Todd<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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          <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span
                style="color:black">From: </span></b><span
              style="color:black">Saul Stein
              <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:saul@enetworks.co.za"><saul@enetworks.co.za></a><br>
              <b>Date: </b>Tuesday, November 28, 2017 at 1:16 AM<br>
              <b>To: </b>Todd Tolbert <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:tolbert@isoc.org"><tolbert@isoc.org></a>, Eduardo
              Diaz <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:eduardodiazrivera@gmail.com"><eduardodiazrivera@gmail.com></a><br>
              <b>Cc: </b><a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:chapter-delegates@elists.isoc.org">"chapter-delegates@elists.isoc.org"</a>
              <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:chapter-delegates@elists.isoc.org"><chapter-delegates@elists.isoc.org></a><br>
              <b>Subject: </b>RE: [Chapter-delegates] Notification:
              Individual Donation campaign<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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          <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span
              style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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        <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Hi</span><o:p></o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">I
            see that this campaign is continuing…</span><o:p></o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">I
            have just received another email this month (Help Shape
            tomorrow) asking for donations. The unsubscribe doesn’t give
            me the option of only opting out of only donation based
            email…</span><o:p></o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">If
            every email we receive is going to be about asking for
            money, I can assure you that membership will drop (or email
            will just be filtered). The link that one is asked to click
            on, isn’t even encrypted </span><span
            style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:#1F497D">L</span><o:p></o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">The
            unsubscribe option on the email also doesn’t work (or I
            can’t understand how to work it) as one is not able to
            check/uncheck subscription options…</span><o:p></o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">My
            2c…</span><o:p></o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Saul</span><o:p></o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span
                  style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">
                Chapter-delegates
                [<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:chapter-delegates-bounces@elists.isoc.org">mailto:chapter-delegates-bounces@elists.isoc.org</a>] <b>On
                  Behalf Of </b>Todd M. Tolbert<br>
                <b>Sent:</b> 14 November 2017 04:33 PM<br>
                <b>To:</b> Eduardo Diaz
                <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:eduardodiazrivera@gmail.com"><eduardodiazrivera@gmail.com></a><br>
                <b>Cc:</b> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:chapter-delegates@elists.isoc.org">chapter-delegates@elists.isoc.org</a><br>
                <b>Subject:</b> Re: [Chapter-delegates] Notification:
                Individual Donation campaign</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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        <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"> <o:p></o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">Chapter Leaders,<o:p></o:p></p>
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          <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"> <o:p></o:p></p>
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          <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">I appreciate
            this comment and all the others. They are not falling on
            deaf ears, I promise.<o:p></o:p></p>
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          <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"> <o:p></o:p></p>
        </div>
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          <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">I have postponed
            the campaign for now. I am interested now from this group,
            what the next steps would be to get to a point where we can
            come to an agreement that this test (in some form) should be
            run and attempted, with the support of the chapters.<o:p></o:p></p>
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          <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"> <o:p></o:p></p>
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          <p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in">I
            believe there is a Steering Committee meeting on Monday the
            20th. I believe I return from my travels around the time
            that meeting is happening, so I will do everything in my
            power to be on the call.<o:p></o:p></p>
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            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">Thank You, <o:p></o:p></p>
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              <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">Todd<o:p></o:p></p>
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              On Nov 14, 2017, at 7:59 AM, Eduardo Diaz <<a
                href="mailto:eduardodiazrivera@gmail.com"
                moz-do-not-send="true">eduardodiazrivera@gmail.com</a>>
              wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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                <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">Todd: <o:p></o:p></p>
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                  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"> <o:p></o:p></p>
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                  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">ISOC
                    should start to apply to itself the same
                    multi-stakeholder mechanisms that it so much
                    promotes around the world. The Chapter Advisory
                    Council is one of those mechanisms. Use it.<o:p></o:p></p>
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                  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"> <o:p></o:p></p>
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                  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">My
                    recommendation going forward is to send a request
                    for advice to the ChAC Steering Committee and let
                    the ball roll there. This will give ISOC the
                    chapter's insights and ideas on how to move ahead
                    with this program. Even if the final ChAC advice is
                    not 100% acceptable, at least all chapters will be
                    aware of the program and consulted previous to
                    launching it.  <o:p></o:p></p>
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                  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"> <o:p></o:p></p>
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                  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">Reactions
                    like you got from ISOC San Francisco and others
                    (like ours) are an indication of how ISOC is still
                    disconnected from its chapters.<o:p></o:p></p>
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                  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"> <o:p></o:p></p>
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                  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">-ed<o:p></o:p></p>
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                  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"> <o:p></o:p></p>
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                  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">ISOC-PR<o:p></o:p></p>
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                <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"> <o:p></o:p></p>
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                    <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">On
                      Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 4:47 AM Evan Leibovitch <<a
                        href="mailto:evan@telly.org"
                        moz-do-not-send="true">evan@telly.org</a>>
                      wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span
style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#0B5394">Hi Todd,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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                                      style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#0B5394">​T​</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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                                  style="margin-left:.5in">his campaign
                                  is the first in a long while from the
                                  Internet Society, it used to be a
                                  common practice and ISOC has raised
                                  money from individuals before. We
                                  haven’t done so in the last few years
                                  for several reasons, but mostly
                                  because we felt that our processes and
                                  mechanisms were not professional
                                  enough. <o:p></o:p></p>
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                            </div>
                          </blockquote>
                        </div>
                      </div>
                    </div>
                    <div>
                      <div>
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                          <div>
                            <p class="MsoNormal"
                              style="margin-left:.5in"> <o:p></o:p></p>
                          </div>
                          <div>
                            <div>
                              <p class="MsoNormal"
                                style="margin-left:.5in"><span
                                  style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#0B5394">​No,
                                  it wasn't all about processes. The
                                  creation of a chapter in Canada was
                                  originally started after the 1997 INET
                                  meeting in Montreal, but was cancelled
                                  because of an inability to reach
                                  agreement on revenue​/solicitation
                                  sharing between HQ and Chapters (this
                                  was before the PIR windfall). As a
                                  result, there was no Canada chapter
                                  until a reboot effort started a few
                                  years ago. Some of the people involved
                                  in that original effort are on the
                                  Canada Chapter board now so they know
                                  the history.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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                            <div>
                              <p class="MsoNormal"
                                style="margin-left:.5in"><span
                                  style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#0B5394"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
                            </div>
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                              <p class="MsoNormal"
                                style="margin-left:.5in"><span
                                  style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#0B5394">Broadly,
                                  the concept of ISOC fundraising from
                                  members independently from Chapters is
                                  not new, and has been controversial
                                  when it occurred in the past. Perhaps
                                  the plan's designers might have
                                  encountered more of this information
                                  and institutional memory, had Chapters
                                  been consulted in the planning stages
                                  rather than after everything was
                                  finalized.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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                          </div>
                        </div>
                      </div>
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                            <p class="MsoNormal"
                              style="margin-left:.5in"> <o:p></o:p></p>
                          </div>
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                                <p
                                  class="m-720240266961539312gmail-msonormal"
                                  style="margin-left:.5in"><span
                                    style="font-size:11.0pt">Our reasons
                                    for doing this now are in line with
                                    our position as a global non-profit
                                    organization including diversity of
                                    our funding sources, which has been
                                    a stated goal of ISOC for years; to
                                    strengthen the mid and long term
                                    financial sustainability of the
                                    organization. And secondly, to
                                    maintain and strengthen the status
                                    as a non-profit organization that
                                    needs to meet certain rules of
                                    revenue sources.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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                            </div>
                          </blockquote>
                          <div>
                            <p class="MsoNormal"
                              style="margin-left:.5in"> <o:p></o:p></p>
                          </div>
                        </div>
                      </div>
                    </div>
                    <div>
                      <div>
                        <div>
                          <div>
                            <p class="MsoNormal"
                              style="margin-left:.5in"><span
                                style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#0B5394">Section
                                2 of the ISOC bylaws state that its two
                                advisory committees exist </span><span
                                style="color:#0B5394">"<i>for the
                                  purpose of providing information and
                                  advice to the Board of Trustees and
                                  the President of the Internet Society
                                  on matters of strategic importance</i>". </span><span
style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#0B5394">The
                                whole reason some of us worked so hard
                                to create a Chapters Advisory Council
                                was to establish an appropriate
                                bi-directional channel that would inform
                                HQ about local sensibilities while then
                                working together in international
                                initiatives. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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                              <p class="MsoNormal"
                                style="margin-left:.5in"><span
                                  style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#0B5394">​
                                  Think global, act local.​</span><o:p></o:p></p>
                            </div>
                            <p class="MsoNormal"
                              style="margin-left:.5in"> <o:p></o:p></p>
                          </div>
                          <div>
                            <div>
                              <p class="MsoNormal"
                                style="margin-left:.5in"><span
                                  style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#0B5394"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
                            </div>
                            <div>
                              <p class="MsoNormal"
                                style="margin-left:.5in"><span
                                  style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0B5394">Surely
                                  a tax-status-related crisis of income
                                  diversity qualifies as 'strategic
                                  importance'. Why was the Chapters
                                  Advisory Council not asked for advice
                                  on this as the Bylaws explicitly
                                  indicate? Who made the call that this
                                  issue was not sufficiently strategic
                                  to consult Chapters in advance?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
                            </div>
                            <div>
                              <p class="MsoNormal"
                                style="margin-left:.5in"><span
                                  style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#0B5394"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
                            </div>
                            <div>
                              <p class="MsoNormal"
                                style="margin-left:.5in"><span
                                  style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#0B5394">Had
                                  the ChAC been approached by staff and
                                  told "we need to diversify revenue
                                  sources from our community", you may
                                  have discovered a breadth of
                                  innovative approaches. The discussion
                                  of whether it is reasonable to have a
                                  nominal fee for ISOC membership may
                                  have proven useful. Or you may have
                                  come to the exact same conclusion as
                                  you have now, but this time with
                                  Chapters as enthusiastic allies rather
                                  than potential competitors for the
                                  same sustaining funding.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
                            </div>
                            <div>
                              <p class="MsoNormal"
                                style="margin-left:.5in"><span
                                  style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#0B5394"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
                            </div>
                          </div>
                          <div>
                            <p class="MsoNormal"
                              style="margin-left:.5in"><span
                                style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#0B5394">Consider
                                the fundraising model used by American
                                public broadcasting. Consider that PBS
                                doesn't do any membership or individual
                                fundraising campaigns without the close
                                collaboration of WETA, its local partner
                                in Washington. Having parallel national
                                and local campaigns could be a disaster.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
                          </div>
                        </div>
                      </div>
                    </div>
                    <div>
                      <div>
                        <div>
                          <blockquote
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                                <p
                                  class="m-720240266961539312gmail-msonormal"
                                  style="margin-left:.5in"><span
                                    style="font-size:11.0pt">It is not
                                    the intent of this campaign to
                                    divert attention from the chapters
                                    or try to confuse the recipient at
                                    all.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
                              </div>
                            </div>
                          </blockquote>
                        </div>
                      </div>
                    </div>
                    <div>
                      <div>
                        <div>
                          <div>
                            <p class="MsoNormal"
                              style="margin-left:.5in"><span
                                style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#0B5394">As
                                you know -- or at least know by now --
                                there are Chapters that charge for
                                membership, and some that do their own </span><o:p></o:p></p>
                            <div>
                              <p class="MsoNormal"
                                style="margin-left:.5in"><span
                                  style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#0B5394">​financial
                                  ​</span><o:p></o:p></p>
                            </div>
                            <p class="MsoNormal"
                              style="margin-left:.5in"><span
                                style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#0B5394">solicitations
                                of members based on </span><o:p></o:p></p>
                            <div>
                              <p class="MsoNormal"
                                style="margin-left:.5in"><span
                                  style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#0B5394">​local</span><o:p></o:p></p>
                            </div>
                            <p class="MsoNormal"
                              style="margin-left:.5in"><span
                                style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#0B5394"> initiatives.
                              </span><o:p></o:p></p>
                            <div>
                              <p class="MsoNormal"
                                style="margin-left:.5in"><span
                                  style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#0B5394">​Starting</span><o:p></o:p></p>
                            </div>
                            <p class="MsoNormal"
                              style="margin-left:.5in"><span
                                style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#0B5394"> a
                              </span><o:p></o:p></p>
                            <div>
                              <p class="MsoNormal"
                                style="margin-left:.5in"><span
                                  style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#0B5394">​solicitation
                                  ​</span><o:p></o:p></p>
                            </div>
                            <p class="MsoNormal"
                              style="margin-left:.5in"><span
                                style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#0B5394">program
                                now will catch them off </span><o:p></o:p></p>
                            <div>
                              <p class="MsoNormal"
                                style="margin-left:.5in"><span
                                  style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#0B5394">​-​</span><o:p></o:p></p>
                            </div>
                            <p class="MsoNormal"
                              style="margin-left:.5in"><span
                                style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#0B5394">guard
                                and with very little time to determine
                                how to work (or cope) with it. How can </span><o:p></o:p></p>
                            <div>
                              <p class="MsoNormal"
                                style="margin-left:.5in"><span
                                  style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#0B5394">​anyone</span><o:p></o:p></p>
                            </div>
                            <p class="MsoNormal"
                              style="margin-left:.5in"><span
                                style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#0B5394"> state
                                definitively that these initiatives will
                                not be confusing or competitive without
                                having reached out to these Chapters --
                                either individually or through the
                                Council?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
                          </div>
                        </div>
                      </div>
                    </div>
                    <div>
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                                <p
                                  class="m-720240266961539312gmail-msonormal"
                                  style="margin-left:.5in"><span
                                    style="font-size:11.0pt">I believe
                                    the message will touch on the
                                    breadth and depth of what the
                                    community does in the world and that
                                    obviously includes the work in the
                                    chapters. Both messages will go out
                                    on our standard mailer format which
                                    has been used to this list for the
                                    entirety of 2017.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
                              </div>
                            </div>
                          </blockquote>
                        </div>
                      </div>
                    </div>
                    <div>
                      <div>
                        <div>
                          <div>
                            <p class="MsoNormal"
                              style="margin-left:.5in"><span
                                style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#0B5394">​At
                                worst, this is a potential for direct
                                conflict with some Chapters.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
                          </div>
                          <div>
                            <div>
                              <p class="MsoNormal"
                                style="margin-left:.5in"><span
                                  style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#0B5394"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
                            </div>
                            <div>
                              <p class="MsoNormal"
                                style="margin-left:.5in"><span
                                  style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#0B5394">At
                                  best, this is a missed opportunity to
                                  let the Chapters Advisory Council
                                  fulfill its Bylaw role as an integral
                                  part of the ISOC decision-making
                                  process. ISOC can't be a trusted
                                  advocate for multi-stakeholder
                                  approaches to Internet governance when
                                  it ignores its own internal
                                  multi-stakeholder structures. There is
                                  a further missed opportunity in that
                                  shutting Chapters out of the campaign
                                  architecture reduces the potential for
                                  a network of local champions ​once the
                                  donation campaigns are launched.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
                            </div>
                            <div>
                              <p class="MsoNormal"
                                style="margin-left:.5in"><span
                                  style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#0B5394"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
                            </div>
                            <div>
                              <p class="MsoNormal"
                                style="margin-left:.5in"><span
                                  style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#0B5394">To
                                  use a tennis metaphor, this is an
                                  unforced error. Not too late to fix.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
                            </div>
                          </div>
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                        <div>
                          <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"> <o:p></o:p></p>
                        </div>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">--
                          <o:p></o:p></p>
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                                  <p class="MsoNormal"
                                    style="margin-left:.5in">Evan
                                    Leibovitch<o:p></o:p></p>
                                  <p class="MsoNormal"
                                    style="margin-left:.5in">Toronto,
                                    Canada<o:p></o:p></p>
                                  <blockquote
style="margin-left:30.0pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt">
                                    <p class="MsoNormal"
                                      style="margin-left:.5in">Em: evan
                                      at telly dot org<o:p></o:p></p>
                                    <p class="MsoNormal"
                                      style="margin-left:.5in">Sk:
                                      evanleibovitch<o:p></o:p></p>
                                    <p class="MsoNormal"
                                      style="margin-left:.5in">Tw: el56<o:p></o:p></p>
                                  </blockquote>
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                    <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">_______________________________________________<br>
                      As an Internet Society Chapter Officer you are
                      automatically subscribed<br>
                      to this list, which is regularly synchronized with
                      the Internet Society<br>
                      Chapter Portal (AMS): <a
                        href="https://portal.isoc.org" target="_blank"
                        moz-do-not-send="true">https://portal.isoc.org</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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As an Internet Society Chapter Officer you are automatically subscribed
to this list, which is regularly synchronized with the Internet Society
Chapter Portal (AMS): <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://portal.isoc.org">https://portal.isoc.org</a></pre>
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