[gnso-ff-pdp-may08] Bump -- Final or Interim report for Cairo? (was; Placeholder comments on Section 8)

["Mike O'Connor" <mike@xxxxxxxxxx>]

here i am, replying to my own email again.  maybe *that's* a clue why 
we have so much email in this working group?
i just want to bump this up in front of your eyes one last time.  i'm 
hearing no screams of support for driving to a Final Report for 
Cairo, so i'm inclined to loosen up our time-line and try for an 
Interim Report instead.   now is the time to scream if you'd rather 
drive through to a Final Report.
thanks,

m

At 10:52 AM 9/8/2008, Mike O'Connor wrote:

> At 10:39 AM 9/8/2008, Mike Rodenbaugh wrote:
> > Having a Final Report two days before Cairo begins, will not get it before
> > Council in Cairo because Councilors (other than me) will not have had time
> > to digest it.  I also agree that one week to digest the initial draft of the
> > report and suggest comments has been insufficient, not least because last
> > week was a short holiday week in the US.  We need at least another week, and
> > still could aim for an Interim Report at least ten days before Cairo.  (I
> > don't recall being opposed to this approach, sorry if I seemed so.)
> ah!  ok, that clears up a couple things -- and opens the door to a 
> much easier schedule.
> other thoughts on this people?  i'm fine with the idea a driving 
> towards an Interim report rather than a Final...
>
> > Any serious 'voting' in the WG needs to be carefully considered, not just
> > wrt the Staff issue.  The whole point of GNSO moving to the WG model is to
> > avoid voting.
> argh.  bad choice of words on my part -- substitute "polling, to 
> determine where consensus lies" or some such.  whatever.  the main 
> point of Wednesday's call was going to be to run through the 
> "alternative suggested texts" document that Marika is preparing and 
> try to determine whether there's one that we can pick.   if we slip 
> the schedule out a bit, we'll defer that activity a few weeks until 
> all the drafts are in.
>
> > Thanks,
> > Mike
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-gnso-ff-pdp-may08@xxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:owner-gnso-ff-pdp-may08@xxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike O'Connor
> > Sent: Monday, September 08, 2008 8:26 AM
> > To: Dave Piscitello; Fast Flux Workgroup
> > Subject: [gnso-ff-pdp-may08] Final or Interim report for Cairo? (was;
> > Placeholder comments on Section 8)
> >
> >
> > i'll kick this over to a new thread to pull it out of the
> > report-contributions you made.
> >
> > the deadlines are derived from the conversation we had last week, in
> > which we agreed that our goal is to get a Final report in front of
> > the Council during the Cairo meeting.  laying the tasks that need to
> > happen end-to-end gets the report done 2 days before the meeting
> > starts (you can look at the tasks/dates on the working-group
> > home-page).  slipping a week means that we don't have a Final report
> > ready by Cairo, that's all.
> >
> > one alternative is to go to Cairo with an Interim report, let the
> > Council take the report out for the constituency-review and
> > public-comment after the meeting and let staff summarize the
> > responses -- that would give us a *lot* more time to refine the
> > draft, but Mike Rodenbaugh was pretty opposed to this approach.
> >
> > what do people want to do?  drive for Final report, or ease the
> > schedule and present an Interim report?
> >
> > regarding your "voting in absentia" point -- have you and Marika
> > figured out whether you *can* vote?  my sense was that, as staff, you
> > weren't supposed to participate in that way.   what's the status of
> > that conversation?
> >
> > m
> >
> > At 10:13 AM 9/8/2008, Dave Piscitello wrote:
> > >This might work if I were coming home any time soon but I leave
> > >Sofia to attend meeting in Tallin Estonia. I get home late Saturday.
> > >
> > >I need to understand what deadlines we must meet that cause you to
> > >say we are out of time. Can you please identify these for the WG to
> > consider?
> > >
> > >I'll also note that it's challenging to vote in absentia.
> >
> >
> >
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