> On Nov 9, 2016, at 3:01 PM, Alan Barrett <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On 9 Nov 2016, at 16:16, ALAIN AINA <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hmmm. Are we moving the PDPWG powers in board hands?  I do not understand 
>> the concept of deadlock in our bottom-up PDP ruled by  "Rough Consensus” and 
>> not “Full Consensus".  I would expect to see all times, effort made by all 
>> parties(including board) to reach rough consensus on  adoption/rejection… 
>> and not board making decisions. Is this not a discussion for the  PDPWG ?
> 
> The Bylaws have always given the Board the power to make policy without going 
> throgh the PDWG process.  The Board has never exercised that power in the 
> past, but the ability is there in the Bylaws in case a good reason appears in 
> the future.  We are talking about reducing that power so that the Board 
> cannot abuse it.

Good Alan, but the way it was presented  does not sound same as your last text. 
 But It was also proposed to just remove board adopting policy from bylaws and 
only depend on the PDP. May be an updated version of the PDP ? 

Thanks

—Alain

> 
> Alan Barrett
> 


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