RE: [gnso-vi-feb10] executive summary - proposal statements

["Tim Ruiz" <tim@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I agree with Richard on this. If we're going to allow attempts to get
each of our own pet views a little more steam in the report, we'll be
arguing about this forever. In the meantime, I'll be working on a
signature campaign for RACK just to be safe ;-)

Tim

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Subject: [gnso-vi-feb10] executive summary - proposal statements
From: Richard Tindal <richardtindal@xxxxxx>
Date: Fri, July 16, 2010 11:04 am
To: Gnso-vi-feb10@xxxxxxxxx


Wanted to amplify the point i made on the call today

Executive summaries can be very powerful things as many will just read
that portion of the document. 

Given this, I don't think the summaries we provide for each of our
proposals should include any words about the level of support or
endorsement for our proposals. 

Kristina - I understand the response you made to this, but i just don't
think we'll get agreement on how support should be characterized. I
think we'll get into protracted and unsolvable debate over adjectives
like 'some', 'many', 'good', 'broad', 'strong' etc. Even a seemingly
benign statement like 'there was support from xyz' is going to be
debated as support for one piece of a proposal doesnt necessarily mean
support for all pieces.

My strong preference is to leave such descriptions of support out of the
proposal description.

RT