Re: [ga] Any Preference for GA or NC Workgroups ?

[DPF <david@farrar.com>]

On Mon, 21 Jan 2002 00:05:42 +1100, "Patrick Corliss"
<patrick@quad.net.au> wrote:

>On Mon, 21 Jan 2002 00:46:59 +1300, David Farrar wrote:
>
>> No but in terms of what influence they will have it is a factor.  If
>> the NC agrees to a WG then the consensus opinion of that WG will have
>> a certain amount of sway with the NC.
>
>Agreed.  But will they?
>
>Only if there is some consensus on the GA list first.  That is what we were
>trying to achieve with our straw poll.

Whether or not there is consensus on the GA list will sadly have
almost no impact on whether an official WG is set up.  

>However, there is not a lot of difference in legitimacy between a working
>group set up by the GA itself and one set up by the NC on behalf of the GA
>membership.

But you exclude the former WGs which were set up on behalf of the DNSO
as a whole - A,B , C and D etc.  They were seen to have much greater
legitimacy.

>Especially since the NC set up the sublists in the first place !!

A sublist is not a WG.

DPF
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