On 12/08/2013 20:54, Alan Greenberg wrote: Forwarding Mikey's message:
-- where is the connection between the SSAC and action? why are reports that point to serious SSR issues not finding their way into policy discussions in a timely way? as a test case please consider tracing the path that SAC045 took, and determine why we didn't have Lyman Chapin's report on namespace collision commissioned and completed 3 years ago. why didn't the GNSO pick up on this and launch a discussion/investigation/PDP?
When asking this question, I was told that SSAC is primarily a technical Advisory Committee, so it appears not to be clearly defined whether it needs to "drive" its advice on a political level, like the GAC and the ALAC. It produces it's SAC0xx reports and the Board/Community takes it or leaves it. I hope this leaves the door open for us to make recommendations on how the Board responds to advice from *all* Advisory Committees, not only GAC. In the case of SSAC advice, it is indeed surprising that some of this advice is 2 years old and only gets picked up today, but this is probably due to the deluge of information that the Board gets and needs to prioritize. Mind you, I also recognize that the Board is getting a lot better at dealing with advice outside its month's core topics than it used to. I remember being told a few years ago, by the then Board Chair, that if the ALAC sent advice about a subject that was not on that month's Board agenda, it would probably be cast aside until the Board focussed on that subject, with a high probability of falling through the cracks because there was to "waiting list" to hold that advice ready to be used. Steve might be able to tell us more about this, but I think that thankfully this is not the case anymore - which is the reason why some of those issues which had fallen through the cracks are now being picked up. But this brings another question: should the GNSO have picked up on it, irrespective of the Board? Does the GNSO have the ability to pick up on these issues, bearing in mind it also has limited bandwidth? Kind regards, Olivier