[Chapter-delegates] Summary of Feedback - Letter of Affiliation (French and Spanish coming soon).

[Anne Lord]

Dear Chapter Delegates,

Earlier this year we launched a series of webinars as part of an  
effort to obtain your feedback and input on the Chapter Affiliation  
and Support Programme (CASP), with three components:  the Letter of  
Affiliation (LoA), the Chapter Guide and the Chapter and HQ  
Dashboards.  For those that are new Chapter officers since February  
and/or are unfamiliar with the CASP programme, the Letter of  
Affiliation (LoA) describes the minimum performance standards
necessary to be considered an active Chapter and defines a set of  
minimum performance standards for ISOC headquarters. It is used in  
conjunction with supporting documentation (the Chapter Guide) and  
tools (the HQ and Chapter dashboards).  It is based on a commitment to  
a shared vision, with a clear framework for expectations, obligations,  
roles and responsibilities for everyone in order to help us all  
succeed in supporting ISOC's mission.

I have compiled all the feedback received and it is now available in  
summary at:  https://fileshare.tools.isoc.org//groups/chapters/public/20120711-LoA-feedback-summary.pdf 
.   In order to broaden the understanding, I have also requested  
translations of this document into Spanish and French and these will  
be shared as soon as they are available. The document also contains  
some of the process history for the benefit of newcomers.

A note of thanks:

Sincere thanks to all those who provided feedback by participating in  
the webinars or providing detailed written comments. In particular we  
would like to thank Norbert Klein, Klaus Birkenbihl, Veni Markovski,  
Christopher Wilkinson, Christian de Larrinaga, John More, Ed Tric,  
Elena Zvarici, Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond, Victor Ndonnang and Lajos  
Balint for their contributions. We would also like to thank all those  
on the original Task Force and all the participants of the Sphere  
Project.

While any further development or refinements to the LoA are currently  
on hold until the Internet Society Bylaws review is completed, we  
wanted to share with you the feedback that we received.

Next steps:

We would like to assemble a new taskforce consisting of Chapter  
leaders and ISOC staff and we will be issuing a call for volunteers to  
assist with the task of reviewing the feedback. The timing of the work
is however subject to the conclusion of the ISOC Bylaws review.  If  
however are you interested to volunteer for the taskforce, please send  
email to <chapter-support at isoc.org>.

As always, thank you very much for your help,

Best wishes,

Anne
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PS. Original documents can be found at:
i) Draft Letter of Affiliation (LoA) https://fileshare.tools.isoc.org//groups/membership/public/LoA_DRAFT_Watermark.pdf
ii) Slides presenting the Chapter Affiliation and Support Programme: https://fileshare.tools.isoc.org//groups/membership/public/Webinar-chapter-affiliation.pdf

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Anne Lord,                                 <lord at isoc.org>
Director of Chapters               http://www.isoc.org
Internet Society     "The Internet is for everyone"
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