On 7 Nov 2011, at 00:11, David Cake wrote:

> What are being suggested now are more like informal working groups. Something that means we do not need to clutter the main NCSG list with detailed discussion of issues of interest only to a few, something that is not necessarily internal to the NCSG itself but can accommodate discussion of issues that extend beyond it. A practical way of working within the ICANN silo system, rather than yet another layer of it. Something with no formal role, but a practical one. I see no reason why we shouldn't experiment with informal ways of organising ourselves to be more effective.

These sound cool.  They sound like ad-hoc groups of people doing stuff.  We need ad-hoc groups of people doing substantive stuff.

Though I thought we were putting a lot of pressure on having substantive conversations on the Discuss list.  Now we are talking about needing to remove discussions from the discuss list to protect the non-intersted.  Sort of confusing.

avri