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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Good questions St</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>é</span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>phane,
but please note that there will not be time in today’s agenda to discuss the
prioritization project. We will just have a Status update. That discussion
will start happening in Brussels. Of course, we can discuss this on the list.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Chuck<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>
owner-gnso-wpm-dt@icann.org [mailto:owner-gnso-wpm-dt@icann.org] <b>On Behalf
Of </b>Stéphane Van Gelder<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, June 10, 2010 4:48 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Ken Bour<br>
<b>Cc:</b> gnso-wpm-dt@icann.org; council@gnso.icann.org Council<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [gnso-wpm-dt] WPM Preliminary Status: Step 2<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Hi Ken,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Thanks for providing such a clear and concise response.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>I would venture to suggest that the fundamental question we
should now be asking ourselves is whether the system, as currently proposed,
would allow the GNSO Council to decide that projects should be stricken from
the to-do list because they are rated too low in priority?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>A secondary question may be, should the GNSO Council
determine that there is a finite number of projects that can be undertaken at
the same time, considering the available resources (# of Councillors, # of
support Staff, etc.)?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>I am copying the Council because this may be a point we want
to discuss during our teleconference tonight.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>I guess what I am saying is that whilst prioritization is a
good first step, to be truly efficient, the GNSO may want to decide that it can
only work on 15 projects in one given time period (e.g. a year) and that more
projects can only be added when one of the 15 is finished (the "15"
is arbitrary here, I only use it to illustrate my idea, I am not suggesting
that should be the number)? I freely admit to being inspired by Staff's
batching idea for new gTLDs in this regard ;)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Stéphane<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Le 9 juin 2010 à 22:26, Ken Bour a écrit :<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif";color:black'>Stéphane:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif";color:black'>I
will try… </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif";color:black'>You
wrote: “I wonder if the reason we are not getting any projects with a
lower score than 2 is that Councilors are not sufficiently aware that they can
strike projects all together should they wish to when they rate them?”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif";color:black'>Shorter
response: </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:-.25in'><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif";
color:black'>1)</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;color:black'> <span
class=apple-converted-space> </span></span><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif";
color:black'>Councilors<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><u>are</u><span
class=apple-converted-space> </span>rating projects lower than 2 in Value;
lots of “1s” have been registered. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:-.25in'><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif";
color:black'>2)</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;color:black'> <span
class=apple-converted-space> </span></span><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif";
color:black'>My original comment about “>2” dealt with the Range statistic,
not the individual Councilor project ratings. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif";color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif";color:black'>I
apologize for using your inquiry to springboard into a broader discussion of
central tendency measures, but I wanted to convey those thoughts to the WPM-DT
while they were fresh on my mind. Sorry, if my explanation was
overly confusing…</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif";color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif";color:black'>Ken</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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color:#632523'> </span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> </span></span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Stéphane Van Gelder
[mailto:stephane.vangelder@indom.com]<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><br>
<b>Sent:</b><span class=apple-converted-space> </span>Wednesday, June 09,
2010 3:56 PM<br>
<b>To:</b><span class=apple-converted-space> </span>Ken Bour<br>
<b>Cc:</b><span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a
href="mailto:gnso-wpm-dt@icann.org">gnso-wpm-dt@icann.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b><span class=apple-converted-space> </span>Re: [gnso-wpm-dt]
WPM Preliminary Status: Step 2</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Hi Ken,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Well if I was confused before, I am now completely flummoxed
after trying to read your latest email :)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>If there's any way you can explain it to me in a couple of
sentences, I would be grateful. If not, please just ignore my previous comment.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Stéphane<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Le 9 juin 2010 à 15:18, Ken Bour a écrit :<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif";color:#632523'>Stephane:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif";color:#632523'>I
think you might have misunderstood my comment. Every project’s<span
class=apple-converted-space> </span><u>Range</u><span
class=apple-converted-space> </span>statistic is > 2, which means that,
when I subtract the highest rating from the lowest rating, that difference is
larger than 2 for every project. On the surface, that statistic indicates
a wide spread among certain Councilors as to their perception of the each
project’s relative Value. It also means that there are no projects
that can be automatically removed from the Brussels discussion based upon the
individual ratings step, which required a Range of 2 or less. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif";color:#632523'>One
of the possible improvement steps, going forward, may be to change the way that
central tendency is measured after the individual ratings round. When
we only had 5 testers, the Range looked like the best indicator; it is easy to
calculate and understand. Now that I am seeing over a dozen values,
the Standard Deviation might be a more useful statistic for determining
agreement since the population size is so much larger. For example,
out of 12 ratings for one particular project, we have the following
ratings: 5, 3, 4, 3, 6, 4, 4, 4, 5, 4, 4, 4. Even
though the Range is 3 (6-3), the Mode, the Median, and the Mean are all equal
to 4 and the Standard Deviation is less than 1.0 (actually .8), which indicates
a very tight spread not only statistically, but visually as well.
For our current exercise, we will not be excluding this project from
discussion; but, in the future, it could be a candidate for pre-determining
agreement (in this case: Rating=4) on the basis of its low Standard Deviation. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif";color:#632523'>Here
is one more example that is interesting. The 12 ratings thus far
are: 6, 5, 7, 6, 5, 5, 7, 7, 4, 7, 7, 7. The Range=3, the
Mode=7, Median=7, Mean=6, and Std Dev=1.04. I think a strong case
could be made for accepting 7 as the group Value Rating although, if the rule
were written such that Std Dev had to be < 1.00, it would fail the test. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif";color:#632523'>I
expect to have a more fully thought-out recommendation once this part of the
process has completed and I have more time to analyze the results. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif";color:#632523'>Lastly,
I just want to be clear there are tons of individual project ratings that are
“1” and, for that matter, “7”. From what I can discern in examining
each Councilor’s spreadsheet, it doesn’t appear that anyone misunderstood the
directions. Any value from 1-7 could be selected for any cell and,
while some Councilors used the entire range and others did not, I don’t think
there is anything to be concluded other than that is how they perceived Value
across the range of Eligible Projects. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif";color:#632523'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif";color:#632523'>Ken</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> </span></span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Stéphane Van Gelder
[mailto:stephane.vangelder@indom.com]<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><br>
<b>Sent:</b><span class=apple-converted-space> </span>Wednesday, June 09,
2010 6:30 AM<br>
<b>To:</b><span class=apple-converted-space> </span>Ken Bour<br>
<b>Cc:</b><span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a
href="mailto:gnso-wpm-dt@icann.org">gnso-wpm-dt@icann.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b><span class=apple-converted-space> </span>Re: [gnso-wpm-dt]
WPM Preliminary Status: Step 2</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Thanks Ken for that update. I wonder if the reason we are
not getting any projects with a lower score than 2 is that Councillors are note
sufficiently aware that they can strike projects all together should they wish
to when they rate them?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Le 8 juin 2010 à 21:08, Ken Bour a écrit :<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'>WPM-DT
Members:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'>I thought
you might appreciate receiving a brief status report concerning Step
2-Individual Councilor Ratings…</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'>As of this
afternoon, 8 June, I have received 12 Councilor ratings spreadsheets.
The deadline, as you may know, has been extended to 9 June
(tomorrow). Happily, other than a few names/dates being left off (I
am saving the emails and renaming the attachments so that I can positively ID
each one), the data aggregation process is going as planned and
tested. No one, thus far, has failed to provide a 1-7 rating for
each of the Eligible Projects. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'>You may be
interested, if not surprised, to learn that not a single project can be
excluded from discussion after the individual rating step. Every
project’s Range is already > 2 and, of course, it cannot get any tighter as
more results are received. Of the 15 Eligible Projects: </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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color:black'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;color:black'> <span
class=apple-converted-space> </span></span><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif";
color:black'>11 or 73% have a Range >= 5</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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color:black'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;color:black'> <span
class=apple-converted-space> </span></span><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif";
color:black'>7 or 46% have a Range = 6 (max)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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have developed a consolidation spreadsheet, which is automatically color-coded
to reveal the top/bottom ratings and the most prevalent answer (or Mode).
Fortunately, several projects have pretty stable Mode/Median/Mean results
meaning that, while we might have a couple of 7’s and 1’s (thus Range=6), most
participants rated the project similarly. In a few cases, the Mode,
Median, and Mean are the identical value indicating strong central tendency (so
far)! In those instances, at least theoretically, it should be
possible to influence the small number of outliers to move closer to the
group’s most common rating. Even if that is not possible, after
discussion, it will be somewhat comforting to know that there was reasonably
strong agreement statistically. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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Brussels, I estimate that we will have about 105 minutes net (if we can hold
preliminaries to 15), which leaves an average of 7 minutes per project for
discussion and polling. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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am currently drafting a letter that I plan to send out early next week (14<sup>th</sup><span
class=apple-converted-space> </span>or 15<sup>th</sup>) addressing as many
preliminaries as possible so that the Brussels meeting (on Saturday morning)
can be quickly focused on the group ratings discussions. This
letter will cover such topics as: Councilor Preparation, Meeting
Setup, Guiding Principles, and Process Flow (briefly). I will be
encouraging participants to arrive a few minutes early so that we can speed up
the routine process of settling in…</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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WPM-DT members would like to preview the letter before it goes out, please let
me know. Although I recognize that you are all very busy, I would
appreciate another set of eyes on this next communication... </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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