Avri,

everything you say is correct but we need to consider practicality.

The concern of myself and other Council members is to ensure the GNSO review is done well but does not grow out of proportion to our prime objective of policy development. The more comprehensive the review and the more ill-defined its scope, the less resource (time and money) we have for this objective.

I am concerned that we are today launching a GNSO review at a time when 17 out of 20 recommendations dating from last year for improving effectiveness of the GNSO Council (and thus the GNSO) are NOT yet implemented due to lack of resource.

If we end up in 2006 with a list of 20 new recommendations that are also not implemented, the effectiveness of the GNSO will be unchanged.

Philip