All,

This is a follow up to Avri's comments. I hate changing the subject line 
on a thread but I have done it here because I think there is an issue 
residing behind Avri's comment /"..the reason the monthly//
//meetings have not worked is because the PC members, especially the 
council members, do not make participating a priority - no knock against 
the current members, over the years, the members never have."

/My comments are based on serving (badly) as Chair of the NPOC Policy 
Committee. Despite what is written in Charters, etc. there is no clear 
understanding of what the Policy Committees at this level should 
actually be doing in terms of deliverables. It is not that we cannot 
make a list of potential deliverables, it is just that there is no 
consensus on what those should be, and no working from that to the work 
agenda for the Policy Committees. As Policy Committee Chair I got 
(gently, or not) beaten around the head and shoulders when I put 
suggestions on the table. Most of the criticism said simply, to use 
Stephanie Perrin's term, "recruit more worker bees for PDPs & WGs". Even 
some proposed strategies to deliver that outcome were trounced, although 
I see that ICANN itself is now trying some of them.

This is not to criticize people, or offer excuses, it is just to 
underscore the need for a discussion here. I will not presume what the 
NCSG Policy Committee should focus on in terms of deliverables, but I do 
think that a healthy discussion of what that might be is needed.

Sam L, NPOC/csih