Re: [council] framing the discussion on SGs and role of the Council

[Avri Doria <avri@xxxxxxx>]

On 06-Feb-14 11:40, Jonathan Robinson wrote:
> You weren't.  Not by me at least!
Ok, I did not think I saw that.  I must have misunderstood what Mikey 
was saying.
But am glad for my mistake, for I was missing the point about offering 
an opinion on MSI Panel / GNSO interaction while I was probing one of 
Mikey points.
> I only intended to ensure that we didn't drop the original topic relating to
> the work of the MSI panel and our interaction / engagement with that.
I think we need to treat it as possible input for our own continuing 
improvement path.  with ICANN spending oodles of bucks on this process, 
we shouldn't disregard the possibility that they do say something 
useful.  Despite the 'neoclassical style' of their prose.
While reading it, and listening to the presentation, it put me in mind 
of a infomercial for a Branded social improvement product. Nonetheless, 
I think that many of the the techniques they suggest are things we could 
consider and possibly even build in pilot projects on some of our 
processes. But we need to understand them as tools for the purposes of 
the GNSO and not as solutions in search of a problem.
I think it is important that we do not make the mistake they appear to 
be making, and missing out on the pony because it is hard to find ones 
way through hay (or something like that).
I think a good conversation with them, or those of the MSI panel who are 
about in Singapore, is a good idea.  It also might be good to organize 
ourselves (a drafting team?) to offer a critical analysis of their output.

avri

> Jonathan