Re: [gnso-dow123] Agenda for Tomorrow

["Ross Wm. Rader" <ross@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 3/28/2005 7:35 PM Jordyn A. Buchanan noted that:
> Ross:
>
> The original intent was to discuss the report with an eye towards 
> completing the requirements of the PDP for the creation of a 
> "preliminary report", which we spent some time discussing on the last 
> call.  (Unfortunately, I'm in e-mail only mode right now, so I can't 
> pull up the relevant language, but there is a requirement for a meeting 
> within 5 days of the publication of the preliminary report in order to 
> try to resolve any substantive disagreements or something like that.)
>
> However, as we've not yet seen the report and we're less than 24 hours 
> away from the meeting, I'm somewhat inclined to take Milton's advice and 
> defer the meeting.  However, that leaves us in a bit of a bind as I'm 
> fairly confident that Maria will succeed in
> "publishing" the report in the near future, and it will be difficult to 
> schedule a formal meeting of the TF until the week after next, given 
> that many of us will be traveling to Mar Del Plata (and some of us 
> won't, as well).  To that end, we'd probably need to advise the council 
> of another deviation from the PDP, but that we would expect to make the 
> report available for its public comment period shortly after Mar Del Plata.

Thanks for the background Jordyn - very helpful. I've started to browse 
through the report with these goals in mind, but would certainly 
appreciate some further opportunity to give the document a full read. 
There is a lot to consider here and I'm not sure that we could do 
Maria's work justice on such short notice. However, as Maria suggests, a 
review of the highlights of the document would be very helpful.

Thanks again,

--
Regards,


    -rwr






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