Al Qosh would like to agree with me but for the moment he agrees with you.
If easily resolvable governance questions are not addressed with a flexible attitude from all sides, the Syrian conflicts will continue and most probably expand .
In truth we need to be there to properly assess, test, challenge and reconsider the assumptions that underlie proposed governance frameworks but that isn't possible.
One thing that is not proposed is Kurdish control of anything except those local councils where Kurds happen to be the majority. Even then, the proposed delivery of government service would not or at least should not be determined along sectarian lines.
As an interim measure for some regions the direct democracy model has voters electing representative with ethnicity/sectarian quota set to represent the people in the area. And so the elected local representatives get to influence things like local policing, school curriculums, waste management, hospital funding priorities, local infrastructure maintenance and so on.
It's all pretty boring stuff but it needs to be done and I can't foresee anyone justifiably complaining about it .... except when the garbage is not collected or thieves are not caught.
The likely point of contention would be the proposed election (by the local representatives) of a national council, the Chair of which could fulfil the role of a president. Whether Assad could sit in a role of interim Chair / President for a period of time would be a matter for the National Council to determine.
The success of any shift away from necessarily corrupt patronage systems of the past and present would be contingent on the establishment of a professional merit based civil service at both regional and national levels.
There will be holes and risks to be managed in any governance system. An obvious strength of the decentralized model is that it can be flexed to include regions that will not have anything to do with a centralized Baathist government. (the US Zone included).
Good government is most often boring government with no space for egotistical narcissists to hang their hats .
