[CCWG-ACCT] advice/recommendation vs. decision making

[Cheryl Langdon-Orr]

Well said Avri
On 25 Nov 2015 2:27 am, "Avri Doria" <avri at acm.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
> Neither advice nor a recommendation is a decision.
> Both can be rejected by some margin in the Board's decision making.
> The two words indicate the same level of decision making.
> While nuance may be found in the definitions of advise and recommend,
> their relation to another being the decision maker is identical.
>
> Currently neither AC nor SOs have decision making capability.
>
> In so far as community powers are decision making capabilities, both SO
> and AC are being offered change from the advice/recommendation role  to
> a decision making role on key ICANN issues.  SO are also being given an
> extension in scope as they are being given a decision making role
> outside their areas of direct responsibility.
>
> I think that cutting this knot, may be easier done if we avoid
> self-aggrandizing the roles of our SO/AC while denigrating the role of
> other AC/SO.  The attempt we are involved in, is gaining a decision
> making role for the community which non of us individually as SO/AC
> currently has.
>
>
> avri
>
> ---
> This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software.
> https://www.avast.com/antivirus
>
> _______________________________________________
> Accountability-Cross-Community mailing list
> Accountability-Cross-Community at icann.org
> https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/accountability-cross-community
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/accountability-cross-community/attachments/20151125/baa115b9/attachment.html>