[council] Structure TF ToR

[DannyYounger@cs.com]

I support Peter Dengate Thrush's revisions to the proposed Stucture TF Terms 
of Reference as he has correctly cited the multiple proposals from the GA for 
an IDNH constituency and again notes the inclination of Phil Sheppard to once 
again preclude consideration of the GA's proposals, including the 
transformation of the DNSO into a bicameral body as cited by our Task Force 
representative David Farrar (and consequently ignored in Sheppard's ToR).

I further seek to remind this group of the Board's resolution regarding 
comments on the ALSC report:

Further resolved [01.126] that the Board invites comments on the ALSC Final 
Report from the Internet community as a whole, including the DNSO Names 
Council, the ASO Address Council and the PSO Protocol Council, and requests 
that any such comments be submitted within 45 days from the date of this 
Resolution;

An initial report that is tendered on Jan. 31 (a month beyond the Board's 
deadline for comments) would be a useless expenditure of effort.

I take strong exception to Phil Sheppard seeking to impose himself upon this 
TF as Chair when the Rules of Procedure for the DNSO Names Council (adopted 
26 February and amended 11 July) clearly state:  In the case of a task force 
the NC typically chooses to ratify the election of a chair by the task force 
itself. 

With regard to the following language:
To achieve this the task force should briefly evaluate proposals for 
re-structuring against the following criteria:
1. the efficacy of policy making within the DNSO
- degree of formal interaction between stakeholders
- ratio of unique issues of a new SO outside the competence of DNSO versus 
issues within competence of DNSO

Perhaps you can translate this into American as I can't understand your 
English?  What exactly are you talking about?

With regard to the following:
Terms of reference 
To produce a timely impact assessment on 
a) the efficacy of policy making within the DNSO 

isn't this what your highly tauted Review Task Force was supposed to 
accomplish? 

Here's the ToR that I would recommend -- the objective of the Task Force is 
to review various structural proposals and to offer the Board guidance with 
respect to such proposals.

regards,
Danny Younger