Hi, I happen to be re-reading the GNSO Operating procedures in preparation for one of those newcomer webinars. Always good to have a refresher. I see nothing in it that prohibits us from creating a Working Group to resolve any issue we wish to resolve, even if it is not a PDP based Wg. So my question becomes, why don't we quickly charter WGs to resolve any of these interrupt issues. We can charter a group with a narrow question, a time limit and the resources to make a recommendation to the council. That would at least give the council the ability to then take a vote based on a bottom-up process that looked into the issue. Just a thought. This could give us a basis to work on. We might need some SCI assistance, not sure yet, to refine a couple of points to make this something that can occur quickly, such as voting on such a charter between meetings (the voting between meetings is already request already pending in the SCI), but unless I am mistaken we have no barrier to using our WG guidelines to actually get bottom-up work done outside of PDP constraints and time tables. Also, unless a WG is a PDP WG, it does not need to include the various stages of issues report, initial report etc. It can go from a GNSO Council Leadership constructed Charter, to an emergency meeting to vote on formation in less that the gap between two meetings. While this would not apply to creating policy which still requires a PDP, it could well resolve issues of whether something was consistent with policy. And could certainly work on issues to do with governance and transition. Just a thought. avri