[chapter-delegates] ISOC Annual Report 2003

[Lynn St.Amour]

Hi Franck,

thanks for the mail.  I've copied Mirjam as she 
is working with the IETF looking for ways to 
increase communications/education wrt IETF's 
activities.

Regards,
Lynn

At 8:50 AM +1200 5/3/05, Franck Martin wrote:
>Fred,
>
>I read with interest the first Annual report of 
>ISOC, I cannot wait to read the 2004 version!
>
>Your introduction is very instructive as yes 
>ISOC is an IETF organisation. This mainly 
>explains why ISOC HQ and chapters are so 
>disconnected.
>
>I see also that ISOC financials are much more 
>healthy since the PIR. It should give room for 
>improvement.
>
>How to reconnect chapters and ISOC HQ from your point of view.
>
>If ISOC is here to support IETF, and the 
>chapters are here to support ISOC HQ. Then the 
>Chapters must support IETF. Unfortunately the 
>membership is far from being technical people. 
>However these people understand issues.
>
>We would need a monthly brief from IETF sent to 
>all members and what is cooking in IETF. For 
>instance the recent Domain key proposal was 
>interesting for the whole community. It could 
>have been explained in or two paragraphs. I'm 
>sure there are other work in progress that would 
>interest the community.
>
>You need to do an IETF report, simple, so we 
>know how the IETF is shapping the Internet. The 
>Linux community does some kind of bulletins 
>explaining in layman terms the work happening in 
>the kernel, and why a technology is chosen over 
>another.
>
>With that we will be able to support more the 
>work of the IETF. Therefore be in synergy with 
>your introduction in the Annual Report.
>
>I suggest you write the first IETF news 
>bulleting, and then "pass the buck" inside ISOC.
>
>Cheers
>
>--
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>Franck Martin
>franck at sopac.org
>"Toute connaissance est une réponse à une question"
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