RE: [gnso-vi-feb10] call for agenda items -- note, the calls next week are 30 minutes LONGER -- and suggestions for drafting teams

["Tim Ruiz" <tim@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mikey,

Regarding the RACK+ summary, the entire proposal doc is shorter than the
Molecule summary that's been circulated so far. Why can't the proposal
itself be used? Maybe I'm missing something.

Tim

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [gnso-vi-feb10] call for agenda items -- note, the calls next
week are 30 minutes LONGER -- and suggestions for drafting teams
From: "Mike O'Connor" <mike@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, July 09, 2010 11:51 am
To: Gnso-vi-feb10@xxxxxxxxx


hi all,

well, we're really getting down to the end of the marathon. we have to
throw the Initial Report over the transom at the end of the week in
order to hit all the lead-time deadlines that lead up to the Board
retreat at the end of September.

so this is the time to find those points of agreement and write them
down. we'll review the results of the drafting-group efforts on Monday
and figure out our way forward from there. so the calls next week will
be 2 hours long rather than the normal 90 minutes.

here's a thought or two for the drafting teams 

-- if i were in your shoes, i would try to find points of agreement by
narrowing the scope of what we agree about. then, i would follow those
points with a broader list of issues that remain unresolved, but that we
will be continuing to work on during the public comment period. the goal
here is to find *something* (no matter how narrow) around which there is
broad agreement.

-- consider describing a series of conditions that may need to be met,
after which other things could happen. one example that comes to mind is
in the Compliance area. maybe we can say that certain things need to
happen with regard to compliance, after which we would be more
comfortable agreeing to other things -- but also describing why we are
unable to come to consensus in advance. i remain convinced that much of
the trouble we've had revolves around issues of trust, timing and
knowledge

one last reminder. Keith submitted a summary of one of the two "Brussels
molecules"... we need a summary from the RACK+ contingent at a minimum,
and preferably similar summaries from the other "Brussels molecule" plus
any other groups that would like to have their molecule included in the
final matrix/molecule-polling.

thanks,

mikey

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