[Chapter-delegates] questions to the candidates for the BoT

Wed Apr 6 08:42:50 PDT 2016

Dear Alejandro, Olga

ICANN has a strict policy that no member of the Board can for part of 
any Government. Is there any similar provision in ISOCs Bylaws?

Carlos Raúl Gutiérrez
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On 6 Apr 2016, at 9:19, Alejandro Pisanty wrote:

> Veni,
>
> I fully agree with you on the need to support the discussion on email. 
> I
> have twice formulated a question ont he Connect platform and don't see 
> it
> recorded so here it is:
>
> Olga, last Monday in  a LACRALO conference call you presented the 
> GAC's
> views on the IANA Transition. You have been the GAC representative for
> Argentina for many years. As you explained, all GAC representatives 
> are
> subject to instructions from their governments. In fact as GAC rep you 
> have
> had to change positions radically following instructions, and some 
> times
> against regional agreements with all other stakeholders. I can provide
> specific instances if required. You have been required to align with a
> governmental-preeminence position several times, the latest among 
> which is
> the Organization of American States (OAS) position on Cybersecurity, 
> which
> is governments+firms only.
>
> I understand it is part of the job, but this is not the level of
> independence we need in Trustees, and as far as I can see it 
> contradicts
> your statement as candidate. Andrei and Mohammed are clearly not bound 
> in
> this way.
>
> Yours,
>
> Alejandro Pisanty
>
> On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 10:05 AM, Veni Markovski <veni at veni.com> wrote:
>
>> Thank you, Olga!
>> While it is understandable the desire of ISOC to keep everything on
>> Connect, perhaps we should note that there are chapters, which are in
>> countries with limited connectivity? A mailing list, where people ask
>> questions and receive answers may be also a good thing. And someone 
>> at ISOC
>> could copy and paste them in the Connect for those of us, who are 
>> using it.
>>
>> We have already enough lists and forums, and social media, imho.
>>
>> On Wednesday, April 6, 2016, Olga Cavalli <olgacavalli at gmail.com> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Veni,
>>>
>>> If you login in Connect, then you find a link to:
>>>
>>> 2016 Candidate Forum for Chapters
>>> <https://connect.internetsociety.org/communities/community-home/?CommunityKey=d81c61b2-2a2f-4e30-8d0c-5a728b710f28>
>>>
>>> There you can find the questions and answers from candidates, also 
>>> new
>>> questions can be posted.
>>>
>>> Best regards
>>> Olga
>>>
>>>
>>> 2016-04-06 11:56 GMT-03:00 Veni Markovski <veni at veni.com>:
>>>
>>>> Andrei Kolesnikov sent me this:
>>>>
>>>> There are discussions going in 2016 Candidate forum for chapters 
>>>> and so
>>>> for organizations.
>>>> For instance
>>>> https://connect.internetsociety.org/home?utm_source=Top%20link&utm_medium=site&utm_campaign=Main%20website%20top%20link
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wednesday, April 6, 2016, Veni Markovski <veni at veni.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi, everyone.
>>>>> There are two weeks left for the elections of the BoT; could 
>>>>> someone
>>>>> point to the page, where there's a discussion of views of the 
>>>>> candidates?
>>>>> I don't see a link here:
>>>>> http://www.internetsociety.org/2016-board-trustees-nominees or 
>>>>> here:
>>>>> http://www.internetsociety.org/trustees
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>>
>>>>> Best,
>>>>> Veni Markovski
>>>>> Internet Society - Bulgariahttp://isocbg.wordpress.com
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Best,
>>>> Veni
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>>>> https://twitter.com/veni
>>>>
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>>>>
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>>>> and
>>>> phrases.
>>>>
>>>>
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>>
>> --
>> Best,
>> Veni
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>> https://twitter.com/veni
>>
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>>
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>> and
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>>
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