Re: [soac-newgtldapsup-wg] The JAS WG Agenda Going Forward

[Carlton Samuels <carlton.samuels@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Avri:

Sure we will!

The final report is the precursor for the NAG.  Read the 5th para again;
starting at "Our starting point is the MR2...."

As I see it, the NAG will substantially be the Final Report ...'form and
format agreed'.  But this is only my judgment.

Carlton
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On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 7:42 AM, Avri Doria <avri@xxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> How does this Needs-Assesed Application Guidebook effort affect the drive
> to get a Final Report?  I still think we need to produce one.
>
> a.
>
> On 27 Jun 2011, at 04:32, Carlton Samuels wrote:
>
> > Dear Colleagues:
> > I shall be unable to join our scheduled call on Tuesday, 28th on account
>  I shall be in the air somewhere between HKG and SFO.  Our co-chair's
> availability is still not determined; communications disconnects.  In any
> event, I shall frame for the record my own views on the journey for the next
> little while.
> >
> > Having witnessed Singapore, it appears now to me that the principal
> objective of this group is to prepare an information docket sufficiently
> detailed and readable to guide would-be applicants deemed worthy of support
> for applying for a new gTLD. I've seen this termed elsewhere as a
> "Needs-Assessed Applicant Guidebook".  The name works for me.  I'm
> estimating that this document must be ready for prime time by latest 2nd
> week of September.
> >
> > If we are severally agreed on the objective outlined above, then we are
> unanimous that this document must be equal in quality and style, if not
> detail, to the 2011-05-30 Applicant Guidebook, as amended.
> >
> > We are unanimous that we shall need significant additional staff support
> if we must make the deadline.  Kurt Pritz has promised as much and so we
> will designate the the ALAC Chair to follow-up.
> >
> > Our starting point is the MR2 document.  The scribes have agreed to
> review the redlined text to identify areas where work is needed.  These
> areas will then become the focus of our intense analysis, week after week
> until we are satisfied that they are the best they can be. Staff support
> will be critical here.  Because as the group settle on any given area, the
> staff will take the output and place it in our NAG, form ......and format
> previously agreed.
> >
> > Now, we already know some of the areas of need/clarification required;
> disqualification from consideration of certain government-type entities, fee
> reduction ala the GAC position, the $2M fund announced by ICANN and its role
> & use to which this might be applied etc., detail the additional needs for
> sustainability - like the registry/registrar services - and how those would
> be realized. You may add other 'hot' items as you see fit.  I would
> recommend that we seek a discussion leader for each 'hot' item  and use the
> list for the initial argy-bargy.   The role of the co-chairs would then be
> to call for consensus around the emerging dominant idea from the list.
> >
> > I would think we have a duty of care to ensure that the new gTLD
> Communications Plan - which seems to be already decided - is sufficiently
> malleable to accept full responsibility for communicating the NAG and all
> that it offers.
> >
> > I also think that with respect to operational readiness for
> needs-assessed applicants, a draft implementation framework must be provided
> to staff from this group and that their fully-developed implementation plan
> be subject to our review.  With this in mind, I do believe that that
> flowchart being developed by Dev is a useful tool.  True, we have had a few
> comments on it since it was provided.  I would urge members to spend some
> time on making it the best we can make it.
> >
> > I digest then tend to the intuitive.  So your feedback would be very
> useful in helping me refine/frame my head.
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > Carlton
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> > Carlton A Samuels
> > Mobile: 876-818-1799
> > Strategy, Planning, Governance, Assessment & Turnaround
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