Re: [soac-mapo] Revised draft Charter Terms of Reference for your review

[Alan Greenberg <alan.greenberg@xxxxxxxxx>]

I agree. I actually think that the word "preliminary" was the right 
word. This is a tough problem that has been discussed for several 
years. Perhaps we will come up with an inspired solution to it in 
next three weeks (which is when September 13th is). Or not. If we 
have some indication of a direction that will work, we will need to 
tell the Board. Setting tight constraints is an effective mechanism 
to get people to produce, but it is not magic and cannot be 
guaranteed to work - VI is the proof if we needed one. So we need to 
keep our options flexible.
Based on experiences in other groups, if we wanted a final report for 
the 13th, we should really have a draft already to allow for the 
inevitable discussions over both major and detailed wording. But we 
have not yet even started the substantive discussion.
So let's agree to this middle ground and get to the real work.

Alan


At 26/08/2010 07:31 AM, Jon Nevett wrote:

> Let's go with the current draft that includes Stephane's deletion 
> and Avri's addition and move on to the substance.  Thanks.  Jon