[Chapter-delegates] Performance Standards, ISOC LoA

[Ted Mooney]

An interesting observation, Veni.  I certainly have no choice than to await the resolution of the By-laws issues before proceeding with a Letter of Affiliation. And perhaps while the issue of the LoA was in hiatus due to the clearly more important by-laws discussion, Chapter leaders may have assumed that it is dead.  Nor is the LoA necessarily the only venue of developing and working with the communities that support our shared values.  What is important, I think, is the common and documented understanding of how the parties come together for the communal purpose.  For some that should be a Letter of Affiliation, for others it may be something else such as an exchange of emails.  

I continue to hear you say that The Internet Society needs Chapters more than Chapters need the Internet Society.  Perhaps that is true.  Perhaps not.  I do know that we need and rely on each other.  If you were never a member of ISOC you would still be able to follow, use and discuss the excellent work of our Public Policy team, our Trust and Identity team, our Standards and Technology team, and not think twice about it. You may not need the toolkits we develop to assist chapters with outreach in their communities, to train members how work with volunteers, to provide video learning events on open Internet Standards, but there are others who do.  And we will continue to improve our support to them.  For others who are self contained and self-sufficient, I would suggest that we develop a relationship model that builds on that, rather than think of the other as renegade or ungrateful.  I want a partnership with the Bulgarian Chapter and the DC Chapter.  If the LoA is the wrong model, I hope there is another one and offer to work with you to find it.

Best regards,

Ted

Ted Mooney
Sr. Director, Membership & Services
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On Sep 20, 2012, at 3:20 PM, Veni Markovski <veni at veni.com> wrote:

> Ted,
> Did I miss something - I believed the whole conversation about the LoA is already dead. 
> If there are chapters, willing to enter into any agreement with ISOC, which might cause them serious problems at home, and if ISOC is really pushing forward this, then perhaps you can create another mailing list, of the "willing" to sign into such a LoA, so that we don't get more confused. 
> I am positive our board will not approve signing such a LoA, and we will not lose anything by not being a recognized chapter of ISOC.
> Once again - it is ISOC that needs the chapters, not the other way around. 
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> On 09/20/2012 12:25, Ted Mooney wrote:
>> Norbert, 
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>> I apologize for my delayed resonse to your many emails.
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>> I recall that there were two provisions that we said Chapters have every right to expect and which will appear in the next version of the Letter of Affiliation 1- Standards of performance for ISOC as well as for Chapters.  These can be viewed in the latest draft Letter of Affiliation which was sent to you and all Chapter Delegates and can be view here: https://fileshare.tools.isoc.org//groups/membership/public/LoA_DRAFT_Watermark.pdf 
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