<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">With a structure that includes just two co-chairs, I must completely agree with Noah here.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Owen</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 1, 2021, at 6:49 AM, Noah <<a href="mailto:noah@neo.co.tz" class="">noah@neo.co.tz</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 1 Apr 2021, 16:26 Brice ABBA, <<a href="mailto:brice@afrinic.net" class="">brice@afrinic.net</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">“The intended volunteer should not be the author of any of the policy proposals currently under discussion and if need be, agree to recuse oneself as author/co-author of any policy proposals under discussion, or simply recuse oneself from the position as Co-Chairs pending his or her proposal being discussed.”</span></div></b></div></blockquote></div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">And who will take up the role of ownership of the said proposal?</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">Will the said Author as co-chair also spend time gathering inputs for their own proposal?</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">And how will the said Author turned co-chair argue for their proposal?</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">Imho, members of the PDWG can choose to participate in the PDP, as WG members, managers (co-chairs) , AC members etc but can't be both, so as to avoid finding one self in a conflicting positions because its not ideal to be both a judge and executioner. </div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">If authors want to manage the WG, then they should withdraw their proposals completely. If someone in the WG likes the idea behind that withdrawn proposal, they can independently submit a new one for discussion. </div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">Noah</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"></div></div>
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