Re: [802SEC] Consent agenda guideline

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Here is possible text:

The following should be considered for inclusion on the consent agenda upon request:

Information items such as:

Presentation of the Tutorial schedule at the opening meeting, only if all presentations have been given to the Recording Secretary according to the guidelines.
Other pro-forma information items

and motions such as:

First renewal of a Study Group (either ECSG or WGSG)
Public statements (e.g., press releases, responses to regulatory bodies, liaison statements, etc.) that have been announced to the EC email reflector made available to the EC members
Approval of meeting minutes from previous meetings if they have been announced to the EC email reflector and distributed 1 week in advance of the plenary
Other motions that are expected to pass without discussion including motions to progress drafts to Sponsor ballot or RevCom.

Requests for items to be on the consent agenda should be made to the Recording Secretary* at least 48 hours before the meeting start. All supporting documentation for items on the consent agenda other than minutes and WG vote counts should be uploaded to the consent agenda group on the EC document server at least 24 hours before the start of the meeting.

Working Group vote counts should be provided by one hour before the start of the meeting.**

*During the meeting, John suggested that requiring this to be sent to everyone would get the notification out sooner and we were already over time so I didn't respond. Part of the intent of this proposal is to get the information consolidated so one doesn't have to comb through emails to find it since it is too easy to miss something. By sending all requests to the secretary well in advance, EC members can use the list of consent agenda items on the agenda as a guide to what should have supporting documentation.

** We are discussion how to provide the vote counts with minimal pain to the chairs and reviewers. Possibly via shared spreadsheet for the consent agenda items where chairs can input the vote counts for their items.

Regards,

Pat

On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 3:18 PM, Pat Thaler <pat.thaler@broadcom.com> wrote:

Here is the current text from the Chair's Guidelines:

The following should be considered for inclusion on the consent agenda upon request:
1) First renewal of a Study Group (either ECSG or WGSG)
2) Public statements (e.g., press releases, responses to regulatory bodies, liaison statements, etc.) that have been announced to the EC email reflector made available to the EC members 24 hours in advance of the start of the meeting.
3) Presentation of the Tutorial schedule at the opening meeting, only if all presentations have been given to the Recording Secretary according to the guidelines.
4) Other pro-forma information items
5) Meeting minutes from previous meetings if they have been announced to the EC email reflector and distributed 1 week in advance.

As currently written it has deadlines for some items but not all. And each item with a deadline has a different deadline.
Since meeting minutes are often lengthy and should be available well before the meeting, it makes sense for them to have a deadline well before the meeting. "1 week in advance" is a bit vague. I assume 1 week before the opening plenary was intended, not 1 week before the time the consent agenda is to be approved.

The deadline of 24 hours in advance that was mentioned on the call appears in 2) which applies to public statements.

Items regarding progression of drafts aren't covered by any of the categories. We approved such items on the consent agenda for the call. Since the language above only says "should be considered" and doesn't prohibit other items.

Looking back at minutes from 2015 through now, I can't find any other cases where we had draft progression motions on the consent agenda.

So, the first question is, are draft progression motions appropriate for the consent agenda?
I tend to think they are. These motions are often approved with little or no discussion/debate. Where there is a question or controversy, they can always be pulled off the agenda.

Comments?