I am not sure they are difficult to assess, but they are most definitely subjective. And we tend to have an aversion to making subjective decisions in this sort of area (although in real life, we are continually called upon to make them). Alan At 13/10/2011 11:29 AM, Thompson, Darlene wrote:

Exactly Carleton,

I've always maintained that we need to track both quantitative and qualitative measures - but the qualitative measure are MUCH more difficult to assess. I would really like to see suggestions on how this can be done - because it must be done.

D

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From: Carlton Samuels [mailto:carlton.samuels@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2011 11:13 AM To: Thompson, Darlene Cc: Evan Leibovitch; Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond; lac-discuss-en@atlarge-lists.icann.org; ALAC EXCOM; At-Large Worldwide Subject: Re: [ALAC] [ALAC-ExCom] ALAC/At-Large Improvements Project -- important update

On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 9:11 AM, Thompson, Darlene <DThompson1@gov.nu.ca<mailto:DThompson1@gov.nu.ca>> wrote: The members of the region, right now, have no idea if their ALAC rep is showing up to meetings or giving any kind of substantive input while at these meetings.

Ah, there's the rub.....emphasis on 'substantive input'!

Carlton

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