[Chapter-delegates] Privacy and the civil society Madrid Declaration

[Fred Baker]

Veni:

A note to a public mailing list is not "confidential"; confidential  
notes are sent to individuals. What Franck is talking about is the  
very common etiquette point of asking someone before forwarding an  
email on their behalf.

In this case, your action has turned an internal discussion into an  
external one. Marc asked some questions of chapter-delegates, which  
the chapters and ISOC HQ need to have a conversation about. That is a  
matter that is in the family, so to speak. Forwarding it to the folks  
in Madrid makes it *also* a public relations problem, in which someone  
who may or may not represent an ISOC consensus viewpoint now is seen  
as representing an ISOC consensus viewpoint or undermining ISOC.

Fred

On Oct 30, 2009, at 4:02 AM, Veni Markovski wrote:

> Franck,
> I believe you have put the things in reverse order here.
> a) The message from Frederic was not marked as "confidential", and  
> b) it was asking questions, to which none of the chapters, which  
> have signed the Madrid declaration, could respond, but only the  
> people who initiated the declaration could.
> I don't see this as "a cat out of the box", and I don't think that  
> ONLY because of this ISOC should respond. If you think ISOC should  
> respond only because of this, then I have to agree we have a  
> disagreement with you.
> I believe ISOC should be responding first to its members, chapters  
> and organizational members, and only then to others.
>
> veni
>
> Franck Martin wrote:
>> Veni,
>>
>> There is here a bit of breach of net-etiquette, by forwarding a  
>> message for chapters to an external party. While the archives of  
>> this list are public, I would have preferred the issue to be  
>> handled internally first. Now that the cat is out of the box,  
>> silence from ISOC is not too cool.
>>
>> Franck Martin
>> http://www.avonsys.com/
>> twitter: FranckMartin <http://twitter.com/FranckMartin>
>>
>>
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