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