[gnso-review-dt] Additional input on 360 Assessment Questions

[Avri Doria]

On 06-Jun-14 18:42, Gomes, Chuck wrote:
> Avri,
> 
> Can you give me an example where the House structure has caused a
> problem with regard to policy development, which is the GNSO's
> primary role?
> 

The inability of the NCPH to perform any of it functions without months
of garbage processing.  It just does not work.  We have great trouble
electing a vice-chair and we have failed completely in electing a Board
member this time.

Additionally, and I can see why the CPH would not mind, it is obvious
that the differences inside the NCPH will keep use from ever being able
to elect a Chair from our side of the GNSO.  That is a kind of
dysfunction that rots most organizations sooner or later.

> Is the adversarial problem you observed in the Council or the GNSO in
> general?  I am not on the Council so I cannot speak to that
> directly.

The Council is not sperate form the GNSO.  The dysfunction is in both on
the NCPH side.

Additionally the house structure makes it impossible to ever consider
adding new SGs, and with the growth of the new gTLD space, that looks
like a possible limitation.

But I am not suggesting we add SGs at this point in time.

What I am arguing for is gathering information.  Maybe my perception is
mine alone.  The fact that people aren't intersted in gathering
information strikes me as sort of problematic, though.

If everything is as wonderful as you think it is, asking the questions
won't hurt anything, we will find out that everything is wonderful and I
am wrong.

As I say, at this point I am advocate gathering info.

But yes, I beleive we could eliminate the houses and keep almost
everything else the same, rather simply, all we would need to do is
figure out how to elect vice chairs and Board members.  But for the NCPH
it would remove a limitation.

As for electing the Board, I consider it a real democracy problem that
one person is elected by 8 people, while the other is elected by 5 people.

Finally I think having a homeless voteless NCA is a real limitation on
the community's influence on the GNSO.

But I may be wrong.  Only collecting data will tell.


avri