[chapter-delegates] Draft ISOC strategic operating plan

[Mike Todd]

No attachments.  Looking forward to reading the documents.

Mike Todd
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David McAuley" <mcauley at isoc.org>
To: <chapter-delegates at lists.isoc.org>
Cc: "'Lyman Chapin'" <lyman at interisle.net>
Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 9:30 AM
Subject: [chapter-delegates] Draft ISOC strategic operating plan


Dear Chapter Delegates:

The most recent draft of ISOC's evolving Strategic Operating Plan is
attached, in both Word and PDF formats. The SOP is still very much a "work
in progress"; this draft is the version on which the Board discussion at the
March 11-12 Board meeting will be based.

The first five sections of the document, which describe ISOC's vision,
mission, core values, and goals and objectives, are substantially complete,
and we feel that these sections are ready for serious review by the Board.
Section 6, which describes programs and projects, is less complete, in part
because many of the details in this section depend on Board consensus on the
contents of the first five sections. You will see that the contents of
section 6 in this draft primarily describe activities in which ISOC is
already productively engaged. Section 7 describes the operating resources
that ISOC can deploy to actually "do things." As most of these are
staff-level details, only the sub-section on Chapters has been filled out
for this draft.

Lynn St.Amour, Lyman Chapin (a consultant to ISOC), Jim Galvin, myself and
others will be watching this list so as to be able to help bring your
comments to the attention of the Board as they discuss this. As you know, a
number of Board members also watch and participate on the list.

I draw your particular attention to the following important questions that
arise from the current SOP:

1. Are the vision, mission, and core values sufficient to support all of the
things that the Internet Society hopes and expects to be and do?

2. The goals and objectives for the Policy pillar (section 5.3) follow
directly from (and are therefore bounded by) the mission and core values
defined in sections 3 and 4; how should these criteria be translated into
specific policy programs and projects?

3. The role of Chapters and Members within ISOC is not simply utilitarian
(in the sense in which the ISOC "toolkit" is described in section 7), but
they are also not ends in themselves; how should their role be described in
the context of the strategic plan?

Thank you all and best regards,
David

David McAuley
Membership Director
Internet Society
703-326-9880, ext 104
703-963-5887 (mobile)
mcauley at isoc.org



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