[council] Working Groups for non PDP purposes

[Thomas Rickert]

Hi Avri,
thanks for your e-mail - actually a good thought!

Best
Thomas

Am 08.05.2014 um 20:40 schrieb Avri Doria:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> I happen to be re-reading the GNSO Operating procedures in preparation
> for one of those newcomer webinars.  Always good to have a refresher.
> 
> I see nothing in it that prohibits us from creating a Working Group to
> resolve any issue we wish to resolve, even if it is not a PDP based Wg.
> 
> So my question becomes, why don't we quickly charter WGs to resolve any
> of these interrupt issues.  We can charter a group with a narrow
> question, a time limit and the resources to make a recommendation to the
> council.  That would at least give the council the ability to then take
> a vote based on a bottom-up process that looked into the issue.
> 
> Just a thought. This could give us a basis to work on.
> 
> We might need some SCI assistance, not sure yet, to refine a couple of
> points to make this something that can occur quickly, such as voting on
> such a charter between meetings (the voting between meetings is already
> request already pending in the SCI), but unless I am mistaken we have no
> barrier to using our WG guidelines to actually get bottom-up work done
> outside of PDP constraints and time tables.  Also, unless a WG is a PDP
> WG, it does not need to include the various stages of issues report,
> initial report etc.  It can go from a GNSO Council Leadership
> constructed Charter, to an emergency meeting to vote on formation in
> less that the gap between two meetings.
> 
> While this would not apply to creating policy which still requires a
> PDP, it could well resolve issues of whether something was consistent
> with policy.  And could certainly work on issues to do with governance
> and transition.
> 
> Just a thought.
> 
> avri