[CCWG-ACCT] AOC type Reviews and Fundamental bylaws.

[Malcolm Hutty]

On 30/04/2015 13:27, Avri Doria wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The issue came up of AOC type review bylaws being or not being
> fundamental bylaws in the context of the CWG IANA Review Function. 
> 
> The possibility of tagging individual bylaws as fundamental or not was
> mentioned. 
> 
> If such a capability exists, I would recommend that the bylaw defining
> the Accountability and Transparency Review  be tagged as a fundamental
> bylaw.

The commitment to have AoC reviews is embodied in the Core Values, which
I believe we do intend to tag as fundamental.

I'm not sure that it is a good idea to tag as fundamental the more
detailed bylaws on how the AoCs are to work and what they are to
consider. We may well wish to amend or supplement these later, in the
light of experience (maybe even soon, in the light of our deliberations
on WS2).

Tagging too much as fundamental, and then needing to change it rapidly
and frequently, would devalue the protection for those things for which
there is no foreseeable reason to change them, and every reason to wish
them to be deeply entrenched.

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