<div dir="auto">Vint, <div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">My Chapter, along with many others and their many many Members , deeply appreciate your offer to keep this invaluable services to us sll going with your targeted and specified financial support offer; An elegant solution (of course) and one I trust ISOC.org will also appreciate and welcome. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Thank you, once again, for all you have done, and continue to do, for "the Internet We Want"</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Kindest regards,</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Cheryl Langdon-Orr</div><div dir="auto">Internet Australia Chair. </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 13 Mar 2024, 00:14 vinton cerf via Chapter-delegates, <<a href="mailto:chapter-delegates@elists.isoc.org">chapter-delegates@elists.isoc.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Andrew is correct. This is a business decision for which he is responsible and in my view came to the correct conclusion. I have volunteered to pay for Joly's work beginning in May. <div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">V</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Mar 12, 2024, 08:42 Andrew Sullivan via Chapter-delegates <<a href="mailto:chapter-delegates@elists.isoc.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">chapter-delegates@elists.isoc.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Tue, Mar 12, 2024 at 07:27:08AM +0530, Sivasubramanian M wrote:<br>
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>message. Either you as CEO could have taken a stand, asserted your powers<br>
>and have done "the right thing"<br>
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As I think I have already outlined on this list, regardless of how much I like Joly both personally and professionally as a member of this community, or how good I think his video production is, we did an analysis of the _service_ and its use. That analysis led us to the conclusion that the service barely saw use, and therefore we could not justify continuing to pay for it. That _was_ the right thing in my opinion, as personally unhappy as the conclusion makes me.<br>
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This is no differerent to the very difficult decision to eliminate some staff positions, which was _also_ the right thing regardless of how painful that decision is. Being able to separate those kinds of considerations is, at bottom, a part of the very essence of my job, just as taking responsibility for those decisions here before the community is another part of it. I do not pretend those things are fun. They are, however, my responsibility.<br>
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>which are incurred every year, incurred in a possibly flawed pattern of<br>
>possibly unnecessary expenditure and/ or suboptimally placed contracts.<br>
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You are making the assumption, or perhaps levelling an accusation, that we did not undertake similar analyses of other contracts that we have. But we did.<br>
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