Re: [nc-udrp] subcommittees?

[Ethan Katsh <katsh@legal.umass.edu>]

         Is there any information as to when there will be new chairs?

Ethan

At 02:30 PM 3/7/02 -0500, you wrote:
>The issue of subcommittees is best left to your new
>chairs. In general, I would advise against them
>but in view of my lame duck status my opinion can be
>completely disregarded by the committee members.
>
>The reason I don't like them is that
>1. there might not be a record of the communications,
>2. anything a subcommittee decides will have to be
>vetted through the full task force anyway
>3. with asynchronous communication, is not easy
>to keep track of the official status of proposals
>or drafts that come out of subcommittees, and I
>suspect people would become confused.
>
>However, we may at some point in the drafting
>process agree to tell Task Force member X
>to go off and write something by Y date so that
>the group can throw darts at it collectively.
>
>And we might decide that instead of just telling
>TF member X to do it, X should work with Z and Q
>too, and if those three can come to an agreement
>the TF as a whole might receive the proposal with
>a more favorable presumption than otherwise.
>
>But until very specific tasks are to be assigned,
>I would advise against any breakouts.
>
>"quack"/limp
>--MM
>