Re: [gnso-ppsc-wg] Proposed Working Group Team Charter

["J. Scott Evans" <jscottevans@xxxxxxxxx>]

Mike:

This is part of the PPSC process. The PPSC is putting together Charters for the 
working teams in an effort to move the work along and to give each group a 
starting point.  I asked and the members and observers on the PPSC agree to 
circulate this draft to the WG Team mailing list to get input from those folks 
that have expressed an interest in serving on this team in order to help 
continue our momentum of moving things along.  The Working Team is still 
accepting members and we will have to revisit the Charter, if only to reaffirm 
that we have working groups consensus around the charter.  I appreciate 
you points and I welcome your input.  Additionally, this Charter is only 
designed to set forth in broad strokes the task of the working group and the 
suggested parameters for team membership.  If you have suggestions for wording 
that you believe would better define this, please put the forward.  I am sure 
the participants on the list would be happy
 to review any alternative wording you may have.  

With regard the other points raised in your posting, I believe the working team 
itself, subject to approval and input from the PPSC, will then come up with a 
description of deliverables, tasks, roles and responsibilities when it begins 
to formally meet (which I hope will be in the next week or so).  Given this 
reality, your list may be an excellent tool to help the team work through all 
these issues.  That said, I am not willing to commit the team to a process 
until we are formally up and running and I know we have consensus on proceeding 
as you suggest.  Again, however, if you have some specifics that you wish to 
circulate to the list, I am sure everyone would greatly appreciate any input 
that would help us move things along.

Again, thanks for your engagement.

J. Scott
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From: Mike O'Connor <mike@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: Gnso-ppsc-wg@xxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 11:01:47 AM
Subject: Re: [gnso-ppsc-wg] Proposed Working Group Team Charter


i think i'm confused.

if we're working on a draft of our charter (your attached redline), isn't now 
the time to answer those questions?  or alternatively, should we re-title the 
document we're working on right now, so's to leave room/time for that 
first-objective charter-review you're describing?

a sketchy charter can lead to troubles down the line...

at a minimum, i'd like to see a definition of the problem we're supposed to be 
solving, a description of the deliverables, a hint of the tasks in in front of 
us and a description of our roles and responsibilities as working group members.

m

At 12:34 PM 1/23/2009, J. Scott Evans wrote:
> Mike:
> 
> Thanks.  One of the first objectives of the actual team will be to review the 
> Charter.  Since you are incommunicado at the moment, we can wait until our 
> first team meeting and work through this list if others feel it would be a 
> worthwhile exercise.  That said, I want to move the charter discussion along 
> quick so that we can get down to the real substantive work.
> 
> I appreciate your engagement and I look forward to discussing this matter 
> with you further after your return from vacation.
> 
> J. Scott
> 
> j. scott evans | senior legal director, global brand & trademark | Yahoo! 
> Inc. | evansj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx | 408.349.1385
> 
> 
> 
> From: Mike O'Connor <mike@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: J.. Scott Evans <jscottevans@xxxxxxxxx>; Gnso-ppsc-wg@xxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 7:21:12 PM
> Subject: Re: [gnso-ppsc-wg] Proposed Working Group Team Charter
> 
> 
> hi all,
> 
> thanks for the redline Scott.
> 
> i'm on vacation and won't be able to really participate a lot until i get 
> back to real Internet access in a few weeks, but i offer this small 
> suggestion as to a series of questions that we might want to answer in our 
> chartering;
> 
> <http://www.haven2.com/pdchecklist.html>http://www.haven2.com/pdchecklist.html
> 
> i'll have more to say on this once i get back from vacation but hope that we 
> might get to a charter that can answer most of these questions before we get 
> too far down the road.
> 
> m
> 
> At 07:28 PM 1/22/2009, J. Scott Evans wrote:
> > Dear Working Group Team Members:
> >
> > I am attaching the following documents for your consideration:
> >
> > 1.  The current draft of the WG team Charter; and
> >
> > 2.  A redlined version of the current draft showing the revisions that have 
> > been made to this document from the proposed charter originally posted on 
> > the PPSC Wiki.
> >
> > The PPSC is currently reviewing these documents and taking comments from 
> > the PPSC members and observers on these documents.  These comments will be 
> > accepted until January 28, 2009.  After that time, the PPSC will be calling 
> > for consensus on this proposed Charter.
> >
> > While one of the first tasks of the fully constituted WG Team will be to 
> > review, revise if necessary and approve this proposed Charter, I wanted to 
> > give each of those that have expressed an interest in serving on this team 
> > a chance to comment at this stage in the hopes of reducing this as a 
> > deliverable for the team once we formally begin our work.  To this end, I 
> > would ask that anyone who has comment to submit it to the list or, if you 
> > prefer, to me privately and I will pass it on to the members of the PPSC.
> >
> > If anyone has any questions, please feel free to contact me directly.
> >
> > Kind regards.
> >
> > J. Scott
> >
> > j. scott evans | senior legal director, global brand & trademark | Yahoo! 
> > Inc. | <mailto:evansj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>evansj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx | 408.349.1385
> >
> >
> >
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