[council] puzzler of the day: are we the GNSO Policy Council, or the Council overseeing the whole GNSO?

["Mike O'Connor" <mike@xxxxxxxxxx>]

hi Avri.

i love it when i blunder into something like this.  interesting!  so i hijacked 
the thread over to it’s own new one so we don’t unduly tangle up the MSI 
discussion.

i don’t hold this as an absolute do or die issue — but if the Council has 
authority and responsibility for the *whole* GNSO, i think we’ve got some 
figuring-things-out to do.  i’ve been laboring under the notion that the heads 
of the SGs and constituencies had responsibility and authority over their 
respective organizations and that the Council truly is a policy council.

can you point me at the right places to go learn more about this topic?  i’m in 
that “oops, i’d better go educate myself” mode at the moment.

thanks for the heads up,

mikey


On Feb 4, 2014, at 9:46 AM, Avri Doria <avri@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> Hi
> 
> On 04-Feb-14 10:02, Mike O'Connor wrote:
>> which brings me to the last idea for this post.  i wonder whether we
>> need *two* GNSO Councils — a Policy Council (us) and a Leadership
>> Council comprised of the heads of the SGs and constituencies who elect
>> their own leader to coordinate and drive the work of those functional
>> bodies.
> 
> 
> While this is the sort of thing that the review of the GNSO can come up with, 
> I personally think it is a really bad idea that will confuse things even 
> further.
> 
> I think that the GNSO has one leadership council, the GNSO Council, not a 
> GNSO Policy Council but a GNSO Council.  And while there are those who have 
> had a long standing campaign to denature the GNSO Council to make it less 
> then it is supposed to be, the only real effect of splitting the leadership 
> into two councils would be to weaken the GNSO and promote inter-council 
> conflict on whose responsibility something was.  Finger pointing would be the 
> order of the day.
> 
> Definitely something I will argue against on every opportunity.
> 
> avri
> 


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