hi George, all George: thanks for this. I like it. I've tracked it as a change in v 1.5 for finalising on the call on Tuesday. Many thanks Jordan On 26 February 2017 at 07:50, George Sadowsky <george.sadowsky@gmail.com> wrote:
Avri, and all,
During the last call, some of you were concerned about how to better express the thoughts in document A in the area pf comment[20] to comment[22]. Avri asked me to look at it, and here is my personal view.
1. I'm concentrating on what you appear to want to say about what the Board does not do, not on mediating the IGO/INGO issue, although it forms a backdrop that informs the discussion.
2. I have sympathy with comment[22], since the Board's role was exhaustively studied and prescribed in WS1.
3. As noted near the end of the call, texts like this are littered with the word 'ICANN' when the object described can be interpreted as ICANN org, the ICANN community, ICANN org and the Board, the Board speaking for ICANN org, the Board speaking for ICANN org and the community, or any combination of the above., In addition, the word 'community' means different things to different people, providing more scope for different interpretations. It's a wonder that we manage to be able to communicate as well as we do.
4. Given all this, I would write the first bullet in the following way:
• To determine policy when community processes have not exhausted the possibility of reaching consensus.
This does beg the question of what happens if everyone were to agree that community processes have been exhausted with regard to a particular issue. My sense is that then you have to leave it to the discretion of the Board. There are issues that need to be solved, urgently, where any resolution is better than no resolution. There are also issues that, if unresolved, do not imply major disaster and can wait until the community is ready to try again to resolve them. My guess is that issues in the former class are a relatively small minority, and that for most issues, the Board should punt the lack of resolution back to the community as their problem.
But do you really want to include considerations like this in your report? I'd just go with the bullet above and concentrate on your primary task.
5. I am willing to discuss further if anyone wishes to do so.
George
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