Hi Jordi,
Please note that I am responding from my indiviual address, and that I
am not promulgating an offical Internet Society position. For full
disclosure, however, I want to note that I am employed as the ISOC
CEO, and that this informs what I say below.
On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 12:05:42AM +0100, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ wrote:
> I'm not sure to understand if this means that ISOC staff is not able to "speak" (mailing list, mic, etc.), when they speak on their own capacity.
>
My interpretation of the policy is that staff may speak if and only if
one of the following is true:
• they have an opinion, and make it clear that it is not an
Internet Society policy and that they do not speak for ISOC;
or,
• they are promulgating Internet Society posistions.
> if any staff, as an individual, has any restriction to participate
> in the IETF, this is not clearly in favor of the openness and
> transparency that we look for at IETF.
This may be where we disagree. If one accepts employment at the
Internet Society, in my opinion one implicity accepts others'
interpretations of one's actions. The goal with our new explicit
policy is to draw clear lines everyone in the world could
understand. We Internet Society employees are not "just individuals",
no matter what anyone might say. So we have a special requirement
with respect to standards. If we don't want this. we should find
employment elsewhere.
I hope this helps make clear my personal opinion. Note again that I
do not hereby promulgate any ISOC position.
Best regards,
A
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Andrew Sullivan
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