<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Christian:</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Thank you for your words. My intention is not to </font>stop any discussion but to en<font face="verdana, sans-serif">sure everyone knows the alternative channels available for communicating with the Board. All formal advice from the ChAC-SC to the Board gets published for the public record here: [Internet Society Chapters Advisory Council](<a href="https://www.internetsociety.org/chapters/chapters-advisory-council">https://www.internetsociety.org/chapters/chapters-advisory-council</a>). At the end of this page, a button labeled <b>"Find all the recommendations with responses from the Board"</b> is supposed to direct you to the recommendations the ChAC-SC has produced so far. However, this button is malfunctioning, leading nowhere upon clicking. Whether this oversight was intentional remains to be determined, but rest assured, I will pursue this matter diligently.<br><br>It's important to note that most of the recommendations published so far were related to the period when ISOC contemplated selling the .org domain to another entity and making ISOC a more bottom-up organization. These events occurred during my tenure as the chair of the ChAC-SC. I understand there have been no more formal recommendations after that, <span style="color:rgb(13,13,13);white-space:pre-wrap">which prompts inquiries for the subsequent ChAC-SC chairs who have succeeded me.</span></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color:rgb(13,13,13);white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">-ed</font></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Mar 19, 2024 at 7:53 AM Christian de Larrinaga <<a href="mailto:cdel@firsthand.net">cdel@firsthand.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
Ed - let's not inhibit discussion. The cha ac is only advisory on ISOC<br>
board and is not a middle man between chapters and the board. <br>
<br>
Chapters have a duty to good governance to their own community. Their ISOC relationship is<br>
probably the most important relationship of a chapter overall. So there<br>
is a direct conversation to be had. <br>
<br>
It does make sense for the ChAC when advising the board to advise<br>
for transparency and disclosure in the round. No harm to do that. But<br>
discussion should be encouraged.<br>
<br>
C<br>
<br>
<br>
Eduardo Diaz via Chapter-delegates <<a href="mailto:chapter-delegates@elists.isoc.org" target="_blank">chapter-delegates@elists.isoc.org</a>> writes:<br>
<br>
> This is a matter that the Chapter Advisory Steering Committee (ChAC-SC) can address by recommending the<br>
> Board publish all detailed account information publicly. In fact, all matters discussed in this list that the Board<br>
> should attend to should be channeled through the ChAC-SC as formal recommendations to the Board.<br>
> Remember that all recommendations that go to the Board need to be approved by the ChAC membership so<br>
> that when they get there, they are considered to be the voice of all the chapters and not of a few.<br>
><br>
> -ed<br>
><br>
> On Mon, Mar 18, 2024 at 12:05 PM Andrew Sullivan via Chapter-delegates <<a href="mailto:chapter-delegates@elists.isoc.org" target="_blank">chapter-delegates@elists.isoc.org</a>><br>
> wrote:<br>
><br>
> Dear colleagues,<br>
><br>
> On Mon, Mar 18, 2024 at 11:01:11AM +0000, Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond via Chapter-delegates wrote:<br>
><br>
> >We are not asking for analysis. Quite the contrary, we are asking for <br>
> >more transparency on already existing report. We assume that they <br>
> >exist because any firm would produce abbreviated accounts starting <br>
> >from detailed accounts. As abbreviated figures are currently <br>
> >published, we assume that detailed account exist. I would be very <br>
> >concerned if details of every project budget in the Internet Society <br>
> >did not exist. That would be alarming.<br>
><br>
> Yes, there are of course detailed accounts, and our accounts are audited annually. Indeed, the reason the<br>
> Form 990 takes so long to post is because we have to wait for the results of the audit.<br>
><br>
> But as I said, a substantial change to the information (and its form and timing) that we release requires, in my<br>
> view, a change of board policy, whcih would need to be adopted by the Finance Committee and then the<br>
> Board of Trustees.<br>
><br>
> Best regards,<br>
><br>
> A<br>
><br>
> -- <br>
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