[Foundation-l] Policy modification (was possible reconsideration)

[Jesse Plamondon-Willard]

Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
> If a proposed amendment fails to meet
> community approval criteria it fails, and that's the end of it.  It is
> not the mandate of  a subcommittee to override that.  I am well aware of
> the problem of inadequate community participation, but community silence
> does not mean consent, and without a predetermined minimum level of
> community participation no policy or policy amendment should be
> considered as approved.

That is incorrect. The language subcommittee was specifically tasked
with formulating and implementing a language subdomain creation
policy. The committee furthermore did not override the community. Some
community members questioned the need for that clause (long after it
was introduced), and failed to achieve any consensus whatsoever on
whether to keep, change, or remove it. As such, no change was made.
Whether committees *should* make decisions or depend on the wider
community to do so is a very different discussion than whether they
*can*.

As an aside, I'm a little confused. You say that committees should not
make or change policies, but you are a member of the Provisional
Volunteer Council. Do you intend the PVC to simply be a proposal mill,
throwing out ideas for the community to debate?

-- 
Yours cordially,
Jesse Plamondon-Willard (Pathoschild)