Michael Gilbert writes ("Re: Draft GR for permitting private discussion"):
> I feel like this wording comes across as sacrificing too much in the
> openness/transparency of the tech committee's discussions. Perhaps
> something along the following would be better?
>
> Discussion, draft resolutions and amendments, and votes by members of
> the committee, are made public on the Technical Committee public
> discussion [-list.-] {+list to the maximum extent possible. There are
> however certain circumstances that require private deliberation, which
> is permissable, but such actions should be kept to a minimum.+} There
> is no separate secretary for the Committee.
This proposed wording has two bugs:
- it suggests that the TC doing difficult work that needs private
discussion (eg, dealing with interpersonal problems, mediation,
etc.) should be `kept to a minimum'.
- conversely it permits private decisionmaking!
Ian.
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