At 17:45 16-05-10, ALAIN AINA wrote:
The chairs determine based on discussions from the mailing list if
a policy should be placed on the agenda for the public policy meeting.
That sounds sensible.
Section 5.1 of the draft has the following text:
"The draft policy is placed on the agenda of the next open public
policy meeting."
This could be interpreted as saying that the draft policy should
automatically be considered at the next public policy meeting.
At 13:56 17-05-10, Scott Leibrand wrote:
Ah, ok. Perhaps SM could capture that in the PDP document?
I could use the following text:
"The draft policy is placed on the agenda of an open public
policy meeting."
I'll revisit some points mentioned by Scott in the message he posted last week.
In general, the author would like to see the proposal approved as a
policy. It is up to the Working Group Chair to see that the proposal
is in good shape so that it can be discussed at a public policy
meeting. There are times when there may be disagreements which could
be resolved through a public policy meeting. It may happen that a
proposal needs more work before it can be discussed at a meeting.
If you read "The draft policy is placed on the agenda of an open
public policy meeting" as meaning that the Chair and author work out
whether the proposal should be on the agenda, there shouldn't be any
problem. In case of disagreement, the Chair can always leave it to
the author to decide whether to move the proposal to the meeting stage.
Then we have the Last Call. You may have noticed that the deadlines
in the proposal are there to provide ample time for a proposal to be
reviewed. There are only three time limits (maximum) specified. The
Last Call does not have to be immediately after the meeting if there
are ongoing discussions on the proposal. That's the final review stage.
It is important to assess the discussions about a proposal. The
decision-making process is based on consensus building. The Chair
should have a good understanding of the principles mentioned in Section 3.
Regards,
S. Moonesamy
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