[gnso-review-dt] RE: GNSO Review - Next Steps

["Gomes, Chuck" <cgomes@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you very much Charla and everyone who contributed to this. This is great 
work.

The Executive Summary looks very good to me but I do have four 
comments/suggestions:

1.       It says: "Part Two prioritized the recommendations as high, medium or 
low in terms of the impact it could have on the GNSO."  Would it be more 
accurate to say "Part Two prioritized the recommendations as high, medium or 
low in terms of the impact it could have on the GNSO relative to other 
factors."  At least in my case, possible positive impact on the GNSO was a big 
consideration but I tried to judge that in light of other facts when choosing a 
priority.  For example, it the impact might be very high but the cost and 
difficulty were also very high or chance of success was low, I lowered the 
priority.

2.       I think more explanation of the sorting would be helpful.  Overall I 
like the way it is sorted.  I support sorting by priority first but then I 
think we should describe how the items are sorted within a given priority.  In 
other words, I think it would be helpful to explain what the second, third and 
fourth sorts are as applicable.  I tried to figure it out but it wasn't readily 
obvious to me.  Am I correct that the primary sort is on WP priority and the 
second sort is on WP Revised Score?  Were there any sorts after that?  If so 
what were they?  Are there any sorts on color?  In other words, at the third or 
lower sort levels, assuming all other prior sort parameters are equal, what is 
the sort order for color (e.g., green first, yellow 2nd, orange 3rd and red 
last)?  It doesn't appear that there is a sort on color but if there is we 
should explain the order of the colors.

3.       I thought we agreed on the last call that we should explain how the WP 
Revised Score was calculated.  Did I miss that in the Executive Summary or on 
the spreadsheet itself?

4.       Some of the spreadsheet headings seem self-explanatory but I think it 
would be helpful if we provided brief definitions for the last three.  Also, I 
think we should change the "WP-Align w/ Strategic"  column heading would be 
self-explanatory if we  changed it to "WP-Align w/ Strategic Plan"

I believe that the more self-explanatory our documents can be the better, 
especially for Councilors, OEC members or Board members who may be absent 
during any presentations that are given.

Chuck

From: owner-gnso-review-dt@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-gnso-review-dt@xxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf Of Charla Shambley
Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2016 12:14 PM
To: 'gnso-review-dt@xxxxxxxxx'
Subject: [gnso-review-dt] GNSO Review - Next Steps

Dear GNSO Review Working Party,

Members of the GNSO Review Working Party who participated in last week's call 
made significant progress and invite any other members of the Working Party to 
provide feedback on its Report "Feasibility Assessment and Prioritization of 
Recommendations" by close of business on 24 February.   This is in preparation 
for submitting the attached report to the GNSO Council for consideration at the 
9 March meeting.  We will schedule a tentative call from 16:00-17:00 UTC on 25 
February to discuss the feedback from the Working Party, should it be needed.

The attached document contains two worksheets (and is also available on the 
wiki<https://community.icann.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=56138570>): the 
first worksheet is the Executive Summary, the second worksheet sorts the 
recommendations based on the Working Party's evaluation of several criteria:


*         Ease or difficulty of implementation

*         Cost of implementation

*         Whether it is aligned with the strategic direction of the GNSO

*         Whether it impacts existing work or other work

The Working Party categorized each of the recommendations in two parts.  Part 
One addressed whether the group agreed with the recommendation of the 
independent examiner (13 recommendations), did not agree (3 recommendations), 
agreed with modifications (6 recommendations) or determined that work was 
already underway in the GNSO (14 recommendations).  Part Two prioritized the 
recommendations as high, medium or low in terms of the impact it could have on 
the GNSO.

The spreadsheet is sorted by priority so you will see high priority 
recommendations first, medium priority recommendations in the second tier, and 
low priority or do not implement recommendations toward the bottom.

Below is an updated timeline:

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I look forward to your feedback by close of business on 24 February.

Regards,

Charla

Charla K. Shambley
Multistakeholder Strategy and Strategic Initiatives Program Manager
ICANN
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