[chapter-delegates] My Deepest Apologies, Fred and Lynn

[Ramon Morales]

Fred & Lynn:
I wish to apologize if you interpreted my comments as offensive to you or to
ISOC. I am a person of passion and I may get carried away from time to time.
I suffer from having a polemical style due to my training as a debater when
I present arguments that could be interpreted in a manner that I did not
intend. I love this organization and see it having an amazing future.

I have walked in your shoes on a far smaller scale and I know the
difficulties that Board Chairs and Presidents face. I can only imagine what
you face leading a global entity such as this one. I have grown a thicker
skin through my work on various boards and in my current position as ISOCPR
Chairman. (I am at this juncture and have been since 2002, the point of
attack by the leadership of the local cctld registry who still believe we
are in the year 1989. The barbs I receive are bound to be more public as we
continue to make an issue about our backward registry with less than 2,000
domain names to date)

I will speak to my intention and I will shift the tone and content of my
postings. I respect your work and appreciate your decision to participate in
our discussion group. Your leadership is helping us now in a crucial way. By
all means, do not remove yourselves from the list. Your leadership is needed
now more than ever.

Deepest respect,
Ramón Morales
ISOCPR

-----Original Message-----
From: Baker Fred [mailto:fred at cisco.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 10:37 PM
To: Alan Levin
Cc: chapter-delegates at lists.isoc.org
Subject: Re: [chapter-delegates] Dumb question

On Mar 16, 2005, at 9:45 AM, Alan Levin wrote:
> Both of these items have been expressed as a need many times - over 
> and over - can you give us a definitive answer if ISOC HQ has any 
> intention of of pursuing either of these needs?

The need has been discussed among the chapters on a number of occasions 
during which ISOC HQ had no money to do the systems. It now finally has 
some money. It has been doing software work that is probably not all 
that visible to the chapters but is intended to be helpful to them, and 
the very first person ISOC has hired in one heck of a long time is Dave 
McAuley, the guy tasked specifically with looking after our various 
membership management programs.

The board has been thinking about a number of things, and has 
specifically directed staff to do certain things. You will find 
discussion of them in the board minutes and the presentations made to 
the board associated with them.

I am doing some due diligence, and I would like to see this happen. It 
isn't a program that the board has approved (though I don't believe it 
is opposed), and not one the staff has committed to.

Which is why I said "this is not an announcement". If I had wanted to 
make an announcement, I wouldn't have said that.

I would like to believe that I can ask a question of the chapters 
without getting acid comments. Is behavior consistent with ISOC's code 
of conduct a reasonable expectation on this list? If not, I will 
happily not bother replying to it.