I'm not sure about this. The Council list is already public so there isn't any reason WG Chairs, or anyone else, cannot follow what's going on. Adding them to the Council list would allow them to post to it, but is that really necessary? It has come up a few times recently, but I don't recall that as a huge problem overall. If we add WG/WT Chairs, what about Constituency and SG Chairs and ExComs? Seems to me this could be a slippery slope that ends up with a lot of traffic on the list that hinders Councilor communication more than it helps. It also adds a level of complexity to maintaining the list. Not objecting yet. Just trying to think it through. Tim -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [council] Request for adding chairs to Council list From: "Gomes, Chuck" <cgomes@verisign.com> Date: Sat, December 12, 2009 8:00 am To: "GNSO Council" <council@gnso.icann.org> It has been suggested that it might be a good idea to include chairs of WGs, WTs, DTs, etc. to the Council mailing list. If we have time in our upcoming meeting we will initiate discussion on this suggestion as a general practice. In the meantime, we have two action items on our 17 Dec. agenda for which I invited the chairs of the associated groups to attend our meeting as observers so that they can answer questions: STI Group (David Maher, chair) and PDP WT (Jeff Neuman, chair). It could be beneficial to temporarily add David and Jeff to the Council email list leading up to our meeting this coming Thursday so that they could immediately see list discussion on these two agenda topics and even respond to questions or discussion as needed. Would anyone object to us doing that? Please say so by Monday, 14 December if you object. Otherwise, I will go ahead and ask that they be temporarily added to the Council list through Thursday, 17 December. If anyone objects, I will not do that. Chuck