On 6/17/06, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
If you have a commission (or committee) doing this sort of thing it wil really be nothing but a second Arbcom.
No, there's no reason to believe that's what would happen.
Part of the role suggested by this group is to formulate policy as well as to resolve individual complaints. I'm certainly not recommended that the complaint resolution be handled in the broken manner that the English ArbCom operates (that is, slowly, reactively, largely ineffectually). Rather, I view the purpose of this group as to monitor the use of CheckUser proactively as well as reactively and, when it appears appropriate, to recommend changes to the privacy and checkuser policies to the Board, as well as to provide recommendations to either the Board or to individual member projects as to how to resolve particular conflicts. In any case, it should be viewed as a delegation of the Board's authority and should be treated as a Foundation function.
Kelly