[bc-gnso] Cross SO/AC Policy Development

[Mike O'Connor]

lifting another topic from Danny Younger's blog here...  i'm posting it to our list because it's a topic that's due for consideration at the next Council meeting and i'm hoping that we will support Liz's draft.  here's a link to the blog post (which in turn links to Liz's paper);

	http://icannology.blogspot.com/2010/11/gnso-cross-pollination.html

Tim (and others) are grumpy about the possibility of out-of-band conversations taking place.  i agree that we have to be careful to structure cross-cutting efforts so's not to run afoul of the checks and balances that are in place.  but there are a **lot** of problems that can't be addressed within the "silos" we've got today.

the RAP working-group identified a few examples.  we started calling them "meta issues" in the WG because they didn't neatly fit into the GNSO structure.  one example is the need to aggregate and share a wide variety of best practices (which doesn't just sit in the GNSO, but also touches the ccNSO, RALOs, ALAC, the works).  there are lots more.

so i hope that we can can support Liz's work, while at the same time making sure that SO safeguards and controls are retained.  

can folks weigh in on this a little?

thanks,

mikey

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