[council] Advance question for the 28 Feburary call

[Avri Doria]

Hi,

Due to an employment commitment with the IGF this week, I will not be  
able to attend the meeting with the council, but do plan to listen to  
the recording after the meeting.  I am therefore directing my question  
to you by email, though I request that Chuck, who will chair that  
meeting, ask it of you at the proper time.

My question relates to the improvements casting the GNSO council, as a  
management body instead of a 'legislative body.'  One of the concerns  
that I wrote of in the public comment period,  has not really been  
alleviated by the last report. This concerns the distinction between  
policy management as an administrative function and policy management  
as a policy function.  If I read the current proposal correctly, the  
council  must pass on recommendations from Working Groups as long as  
they followed the (to be developed) process correctly - even if, in  
the consensus view of  the council, the recommendation is a really bad  
idea.  I think this relegates the GNSO council to a purely  
administrative body and not a policy body.  At the very least, I  
believe the council should be able to reject a policy recommendation  
if there is a supermajority against it (same rules as apply to the  
Board vis a vis a GNSO council supermajority PDP decision).  I would  
like to know your position regarding my concern.

Thanks

a.