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

[Veni Markovski]

Hi, Fred!

I am on the road, and at the airport right now, so won't be able to 
respond more, but here's some brief note:
If someone has to feel bad about the current situation it is not the 
chapters. After all, they are the ones who always are being blamed. I 
don't know if you have noticed that in the last years ISOC has never 
been responsible for anything PR-bad. In certain cases, when ISOC has 
been wrong (for example, the press release for the end of the JPA), 
instead of saying "sorry, we made a mistake, and it is fixed", it was 
followed with "but you knew that, didn't you", which makes the "sorry" 
sound as if wasn't sincere.
Instead of going into details, and past today, it is better to look 
forward towards the ad-hoc group formation, and what it could create to 
help not only solve the current problem with HQ, but the place and 
importance of the chapters in the overall ISOC model.

veni

Fred Baker wrote:
> 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:
>