<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Jason,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">As the current PPM chair I am at liberty to ask any question of the room I feel appropriate to the discussion. In general we ask a standing question for support of a policy as written for Recommended Draft Policies. Questions that we ask other then this are generally on the request of the AC Chairs who in turn solicit that from the AC *prior* to the policy being discussed at the meeting. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Most importantly I will generally not ask a question that there has not been reasonable opportunity for the body assembled (in person and remotely) to speak to prior to the actual question being called. In the case of 2017-5 the shall/should discussion had ample discussion.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Paul</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 12, 2017, at 9:39 AM, Jason Schiller <<a href="mailto:jschiller@google.com" class="">jschiller@google.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">Can the PPM chair call separate questions? </div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>