[Chapter-delegates] ISOC LIVE - the reports of its death are exaggerated, but..

[vinton cerf]

Andrew is correct. This is a business decision for which he is responsible
and in my view came to the correct conclusion. I have volunteered to pay
for Joly's work beginning in May.

V

On Tue, Mar 12, 2024, 08:42 Andrew Sullivan via Chapter-delegates <
chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 12, 2024 at 07:27:08AM +0530, Sivasubramanian M wrote:
>
> >message. Either you as CEO could have taken a stand, asserted your powers
> >and have done "the right thing"
>
> As I think I have already outlined on this list, regardless of how much I
> like Joly both personally and professionally as a member of this community,
> or how good I think his video production is, we did an analysis of the
> _service_ and its use.  That analysis led us to the conclusion that the
> service barely saw use, and therefore we could not justify continuing to
> pay for it.  That _was_ the right thing in my opinion, as personally
> unhappy as the conclusion makes me.
>
> This is no differerent to the very difficult decision to eliminate some
> staff positions, which was _also_ the right thing regardless of how painful
> that decision is.  Being able to separate those kinds of considerations is,
> at bottom, a part of the very essence of my job, just as taking
> responsibility for those decisions here before the community is another
> part of it.  I do not pretend those things are fun.  They are, however, my
> responsibility.
>
> >which are incurred every year, incurred in a possibly flawed pattern of
> >possibly unnecessary expenditure and/ or suboptimally placed contracts.
>
> You are making the assumption, or perhaps levelling an accusation, that we
> did not undertake similar analyses of other contracts that we have.  But we
> did.
>
> Best regards,
>
> A
>
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