Re: [soac-newgtldapsup-wg] call today and summary for the Board

[Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond <ocl@xxxxxxx>]

Hello Avri,

On 12/04/2011 18:32, Avri Doria wrote :
>
> On 12 Apr 2011, at 18:27, Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond wrote:
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>> Please be so kind to explain how this working group got to be asked to
>> provide a summary of work to the Board by Friday.
>> Many thanks,
>
> Is it a problem to be asked?
>
> a.
>

It depends how - and with what deadlines. In business school I was
always told about the conflict between writing progress reports on the
work, and doing the actual work. So as far as progress report is
concerned, if there is indeed a formal request from the Board, I'd
suggest a bullet point list with progress marked as "completed", "in
progress", "remaining" and "unknown" (or something along those lines).
Something swift.

Then, there's also a process to be used for asking reports etc. The JAS
working group has two Co-Chairs, Rafik & Carlton and if the group was to
be asked to produce a progress report, then this request should have
been received by Rafik & Carlton. Has it?

Last, there's a thing as "giving prior notice". IMHO, since I've first
heard of this today, three days prior notice is unreasonable to ask of
volunteers.

Kind regards,

Olivier

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Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond, PhD
http://www.gih.com/ocl.html