[gnso-ff-pdp-may08] leading up to next-week's call

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

here are a few notes on where we're at and where we're going.

Initial (vs Final) report for Cairo

Hearing no cries of outrage, we'll present an Initial Report to the 
GNSO Council at the Cairo meeting.  This gives us more time to 
develop and polish the report -- but not a lot.  I've published a new 
deadline of October 8th, so that the Council members have a 
reasonable amount of time to review what is turning out to be a 
pretty long document.
Drafting efforts

Several members of the working group are on the hook to do some 
drafting this week.  Dave P. is going to expand those stubs that he 
submitted earlier in the week, Christian is going to take a stab at a 
section describing some of the conditions that made it so hard for us 
to reach consensus, Joe is going to redraft his submissions in 
"suggested text" format (and batch them up rather than sending one at 
a time), Marika has a number of assignments, and I want to bug the 
"data people" (Rod, Dave, etc.) to try to put together an appendix 
about the various flavors of research.
T'would be great to have these done by next Monday (the 15th) to give 
Marika a chance to fold your efforts into the Proposals List.
Obtaining opinions

We're going to have a *lot* of ground to cover on the call next 
Wednesday -- we deferred the controversial changes until then, 
because we didn't feel like we had a quorum on the call 
yesterday.  So be prepared for a pretty intense conversation next week.
As we thought about that, the idea surfaced that perhaps we could do 
some of the opinion-collecting asynchronously, using online 
polls.   In the spirit of eating my own cooking, here is a little 
SurveyMonkey poll to test the waters.   Please follow the link below 
and let me know what you think.
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=mWsqnuxxTFC7weYcti739g_3d_3d

If people feel it's a good idea, I'll build out a few detailed polls 
(maybe one per report-section) that we can use after we've hashed 
things on the phone call next Wednesday.
Thanks!

m



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