<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-d36b8b7f-7fff-c036-70f9-e0c80d07506e"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Dear colleagues,</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">One of the items in your recent advice to the board was that the Chapter's delegate list "should be opened to all chapter members as observers (view only – not allowed to post) in order to</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">enhance transparency and understanding of ongoing discussions concerning ISOC</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">chapters."</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The board asked the staff for the history here.  According to what we found,  the list was originally created in 2005 to enable then-current Internet Society Chapter leaders to get information relevant to their Chapter, to their leadership positions and as a place for them to discuss and share issues pertinent to the Internet Society Chapter community.  The archive was private to list members on its creation, but it was made open in 2009 for reasons which are not recorded.  When that was noted in 2020, the open nature of the archives was a surprise to folks on the list, and the archives were limited again.  Christine Saegesser then issued a poll (see </span><a href="https://elists.isoc.org/mailman/private/chapter-delegates/2020-July/022153.html" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://elists.isoc.org/mailman/private/chapter-delegates/2020-July/022153.html</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">) to assess the preference of the community for open or closed archives.   Apparently only 30 of the about 800 or so people eligible to respond took the opportunity to do so, and of those 20 recommended the archives be closed and the list restricted to current leaders.  That's the decision that was implemented.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">None of these actions were the results of actions by the board, and there seems to be no reason to require the board to act to change them.  If the ChAC wants to make this change it can use its own procedures to make the new decision and then request the staff to update the list if desired.  Your staff contacts will be able to discuss the alternatives with you,  Note that there will be some administrative overhead in making any related change.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Best regards,</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Ted Hardie</spa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