[alac] ALAC Statements to the Board - lessons learned

[Annette Muehlberg <Annette.Muehlberg@xxxxxx>]

hi,

at saturday's public forum we learned something about the board's attitude to 
alac's and other committee's contributions to the board.

I think Vint Cerf's response to Vittorio's crtitique was priceless!

I checked the real-time captioning. Vittorio's critique on how the board 
handles ALACs inputs, e.g. our statement/proposals on transparency, ended with 
the words:

?I HOPE THAT WE DON?T HAVE TO GO TO THE OMBUDSMAN TO GET INFORMATION ABOUT HOW 
THE BOARD IS CONSIDERING WHAT WE SAY.?

Vint Cerf gave a very enlightening answer: ?...AS I HAVE LISTENED TO MANY OF 
THE EXCHANGES THIS WEEK, I HAVE CONCLUDED THAT WHAT HAPPENS IS THAT WE 
SOMETIMES DON?T UNDERSTAND THAT A PARTY WHO HAS SAID SOMETHING IS ALSO LOOKING 
SPECIFICALLY FOR A REPLY?
THIS IS NOT TO EXCUSE ANYTHING, BUT WHEN WE ? IF WHEN YOU ARE COMMUNICATING 
SOMETHING SPECIFICALLY TO THE BOARD AND AN EXPLICIT RESPONSE IS EXPECTED, 
PROBABLY IT WOULDN?T HURT TO SAY THAT, JUST TO UNDERSCORE THE 
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Wow! 

>From now on we will put a reminder on all our statements: ANSWER EXPECTED! 
><o:p></o:p>

just bloged that on my german blog: http://www.wecann.net

Annette

 



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