[gnso-rds-pdp-wg] The message to the community (was Re: Cancellation of RDS PDP WG meetings at ICANN62)

[David Cake]

> On 14 May 2018, at 10:06 am, Rubens Kuhl <rubensk at nic.br> wrote:
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>> On 13 May 2018, at 21:54, Andrew Sullivan <ajs at anvilwalrusden.com> wrote:
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>> On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 01:00:29AM -0300, Rubens Kuhl wrote:
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>>> Even saying so would require a consensus of the WG.
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>> Nonsense.  The leadership can say whatever they want "in their
>> judgement" about the WG.
> 
> That still doesn't constitute a WG position. It's basically their individual positions.

The leadership team would not claim that even leadership team consensus represents WG consensus, or a WG position. But we can, and have, shared some of our thoughts as a group about issues that faced this WG with other leadership.

If you’d like to hear our individual positions, I’m sure you can grab us via email or in a bar, depending on how frank you’d like those opinions to be (I’m mostly kidding - some leadership team members, particularly staff, I’m sure maintain their professionalism at all times, though I can’t claim to be among them).

>> If that's not true, I don't understand what
>> the meaning of the term "the leadership" is.
> 
> In GNSO practices, shepherding instead of ruling.

	Yes. Though one point that has been discussed lately (for example, in the Sunday morning GNSO Council session in Puerto Rico) is that we may need to carefully look at that role, in light of some WG difficulties lately. But that is outside the scope of this WG discussion.

	David
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