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Message from the Chairman of the ISOC Board of Trustees
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français and in Spanish/en español.
Additional language versions to be provided shortly.
Dear Fellow ISOC Member,
The Nominating Committee has done its work and the period for petition
candidates has closed. Therefore, you will shortly receive the ballot
for the 2001 elections for the Internet Society Board of Trustees.
The next few years will be critical to ISOC’s future, and we will
face significant challenges. How well ISOC can respond to those challenges
will be greatly influenced by the Board of Trustees, as well as by the
support we all provide it. Although the day to day work of the Society
is done by the staff and officers, the Board determines general directions
and policy. The Trustees bring us prestige and help us with fund-raising.
Thus, your vote is valuable; please take the time to consider carefully
what is best for ISOC.
I take this opportunity to remind you that ISOC, as an international and
diverse professional membership body, conducts its elections in a neutral
and impartial style. As ISOC members, we should concentrate on the merits
of individual candidates and their ability to support ISOC's four priorities:
Internet Technical Standards, Education and Conferences, Public Policy
including societal matters, and of course Services to the membership.
Consider the goals ISOC has and those you think it should adopt, and how
each of the candidates would help ISOC achieve such goals, if elected.
You will soon be able to read more about each candidate's positions and
opinions on a variety of areas through the on-line "Ask the candidates"
process, and I urge you to take the views expressed there into consideration
before casting your vote.
ISOC's mission is to assure the open development, evolution and use of
the Internet for the benefit of all people throughout the world. Thus
it is a global body, so regional and national considerations, or "political"
considerations, should play no part. Every member should make his or her
own choices among the candidates quite independently. Anything resembling
an organised campaign for or against particular candidates is contrary
to the character of the Society and should be ignored in making your choices.
Your vote is secret and is yours alone.
In a recent ISOC Trustee election, a single vote determined a winner.
*Every* vote counts; don’t waste yours.
Kind regards,
/signed
Brian Carpenter
Chairman, Board of Trustees
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