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