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Dear Ted,<br>
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please be so kind to find my comments below:<br>
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your thoughts on this matter. Some comments in-line.<br>
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<div dir="auto">Dear Ted,<br>
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Thanks for the notices regarding this matter of the
Chapters. I agree with your explanation about the role
of the Board of Trustees regarding overseeing rather
than managing the Internet Society nor the Internet
Society Foundation. However, the Board is responsible
to monitor and update the Mission and every
foundational aspect of ISOC. Such a responsibility is
on the highest interest of the multiple stakeholders
involved in the Internet Society. If I am wrong,
please let me know who takes care of these principles
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Let us remember that the Board exists due to the
Incorporation of the Society in 1992. The 3rd Article
of such an instrument states that the purpose of ISOC
is to “ … To be a non-profit corporation (without
capital stock), which shall be operated exclusively
for educational, charitable and scientific purposes."<br>
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Today I find in your mails that the Board responded to
the ChAC (it is not clear if yet or when) that the
transmission of events is not important or at least
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not quite correct. There is a set of events that have
broad participation in an interactive session. For those,
the live session is the interactive session itself (e.g. a
Zoom call or webinar), and the live event transmission is
thus covered by the interactive session being broadly
available. There are also events which are closer to
broadcasts. For those events, the Communications team's
analysis showed that nearly all of the consumers of the
media were using the recorded sessions. This
time-selection style consumption pattern is a common
shift, and not unique to ISOC. As a result of this, the
team moved the live streaming service to a project basis
rather than retainer basis.</div>
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<div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">None of
that is intended to devalue the overall effort to transmit
events; it is intended to match the use of resources to
the current consumption patterns. As noted in the
message, there is continued analysis of these patterns and
if they change again, this will be revisited.<br>
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I am deeply concerned by the business-oriented language employed in
your analysis of the utilization of Internet Society resources. By
this same analysis, it appears that every Internet Society activity
is being evaluated as a profit/loss cost center. This approach could
potentially necessitate significant cost-cutting measures across
various areas, particularly within the Standards thread, due to
changing consumption patterns. I must emphasize that I do not
advocate for this approach, as I am acutely aware that many
activities of the Internet Society serve the public interest and are
inherently "loss-making."<br>
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The issue with the communication team's analysis is the lack of a
comparable benchmark for the ISOC.Live channel. Currently, no
department or contractor within the Internet Society provides the
comprehensive service that Joly McFie has delivered over the years.
The focus on "Live Streaming" overlooks, for reasons unknown, other
critical and often more costly aspects of the service, including but
not limited to:<br>
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- Promotion to mailing lists, including those outside the Internet
Society, thereby enhancing the brand visibility of the Internet
Society and its chapters.<br>
- Full production services, which encompass vision mixing between
multiple cameras, integrating slides with video, providing full
captioning for each speaker, and creating comprehensive pages that
include the agenda and other pertinent information such as slide
decks.<br>
- Complete transcription of sessions to enhance accessibility.<br>
- Archiving on archive.org, ensuring a centralized repository for
all chapters to share and cross-pollinate their viewership.<br>
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Quantifying the cost of these services is challenging.<br>
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My insistence on this matter stems from the belief that this
represents a classic case of "devolution" based on questionable data
and a process ill-suited to our organization. This top-down,
autocratic decision-making process has been implemented without
consulting the very communities most affected by it. This approach
is not reflective of the Internet Society that I joined in 1994.<br>
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Kind regards,<br>
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Olivier<br>
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