> On Nov 9, 2016, at 03:14 , ALAIN AINA <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
>> 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 ? 

I’m having trouble parsing this, but any of the parsings I came up with seem to 
indicate that you are reading a different list than I am reading because that 
is not at all what I have seen proposed here.

Owen


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