[Gnso-ppsai-pdp-wg] Committee of the Whole vs Subteams

Wed Feb 5 20:00:54 UTC 2014

Val,

Thanks for your thoughts.

Marika already addressed part I. Only six WG members submitted answers to the survey, so  we can’t draw any consensus conclusions from the responses. Staff will collect that answers along with the SO/AC and SG/C submissions.

I think that we captured your process recommendations in the draft work plan. The exception is that the Plan examines some overarching issues before getting into the topics after Main in the grouping document.

Regards,

Don

From: Val Sherman <VSherman at sgbdc.com<mailto:VSherman at sgbdc.com>>
Date: Tuesday, February 4, 2014 at 5:17 PM
To: Don Blumenthal <dblumenthal at pir.org<mailto:dblumenthal at pir.org>>, PPSAI <gnso-ppsai-pdp-wg at icann.org<mailto:gnso-ppsai-pdp-wg at icann.org>>
Subject: RE: Committee of the Whole vs Subteams

Don,

Thanks. That clarifies our approach.
Since we are moving forward as a Committee of the Whole for the time being, it could be helpful to us as a group to do two things.

First, it might be helpful for someone (e.g, the ICANN staff) to compile, summarize, and circulate the responses to the internal WG questionnaire.  It would be interesting to know where all WG members--including those who may not be actively participating during our regular calls or on our e-mails--stand on each issue, and may enable us to identify areas of consensus or near consensus sooner, rather than later. It may also be easier to evaluate, incorporate, and address the external SO/AC and SG/C input we will eventually receive if the WG questionnaire responses are already shared and discussed.

Second, to further focus our weekly discussions, what are your thoughts on tackling the issues category by category, in logical order? For example, the whole WG would begin work on "Registration" issues next week. We would seek to crystallize consensus and other positions on the topics within that category over the following weeks, and then move on to the next category (i.e. “Maintenance”).  Of course, input from WG members on one issue might overlap with other issues, but keeping our focus on a particular category of issues at a time might enable us to progress more efficiently and productively through our work.
Val
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To: Kiran Malancharuvil; PPSAI
Subject: Re: [Gnso-ppsai-pdp-wg] Committee of the Whole vs Subteams

Kiran,

Thanks. That definitely is the way we will start and reassess if needed. This project will have to be flexible in a few ways as we go along.

Best,

Don

From: Kiran Malancharuvil <Kiran.Malancharuvil at markmonitor.com<mailto:Kiran.Malancharuvil at markmonitor.com>>
Date: Tuesday, February 4, 2014 at 2:16 PM
To: Don Blumenthal <dblumenthal at pir.org<mailto:dblumenthal at pir.org>>, PPSAI <gnso-ppsai-pdp-wg at icann.org<mailto:gnso-ppsai-pdp-wg at icann.org>>
Subject: RE: Committee of the Whole vs Subteams

Thanks Don,

I think Committee of the Whole is a better approach at this stage, especially for those of us that want to be involved in and aware of multiple issues, but don’t have time to attend multiple calls per week.

Best,

Kiran

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Subject: [Gnso-ppsai-pdp-wg] Committee of the Whole vs Subteams

I’m concerned that my outline of a full WG approach to our work as opposed to subteams was not as clear as I wanted. Some very interesting things were going on in chat and I made the mistake of trying to read and talk at the same time. Please contribute by voice if you can. I think that the interaction is better and I’m not sure that everybody reads the transcript later (sorry, Nathalie).

Mary, Marika, Steve, Graeme, and I looked at comments on the list and shared our experiences. The high points:

Committee of the Whole
Allows everyone to be involved
Is particularly appropriate when issues don’t separate cleanly
Avoids problems that subteams create when a WG member wants to be on multiple teams or can’t devote the time to subteams and the full WG

Subteams
Is good for people who have specific interest or expertise and want to focus their efforts
Works best when major issues don’t overlap much
Can add efficiency in that topics are split out for concurrent analysis instead of the WG tackling them in sequence
Add staff burden and the possibility of failure points if subchairs or members don’t follow through

We decided to start with a Committee of the Whole approach because we have some overarching issues to address. In addition, as we saw today and on prior calls, dividing topics may not be so easy when we get into section discussions. However, the WG can decide later whether we want to create smaller groups and, if so, how to do it. ICANN WGs have used many different models.

Don
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