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

[Jeff Eckhaus <eckhaus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Agree with Tim and Richard on this. Let's refrain from using terms like "strong 
support" and "overall agreement", or even "consensus, since I do not believe we 
have not had consensus on one item  Only issue is  I now I have to take out the 
terms awesome, breathtaking  and awe-inspiring from my summary.


Jeff Eckhaus



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From: owner-gnso-vi-feb10@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-gnso-vi-feb10@xxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf Of Tim Ruiz
Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 9:19 AM
To: Gnso-vi-feb10@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [gnso-vi-feb10] executive summary - proposal statements


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



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