[RDS-WHOIS2-RT-Leadership_Staff] Update on timing and final report.

[Alan Greenberg]

As I think you know, Lisa Phifer will not be able to work with us to 
complete the report, and MSSI is looking at options for an editor. It 
will not be anyone with knowledge of the subject.

The draft report was too long and not cohesive, so I think it needs a 
careful overall review and revision. SInce the editor will not have a 
feel for the intent of the analysis and recommendations, it will fall 
on us to do a fair amount of the work. Given my lessened 
responsibilities with regard to At-Large, I am willing to do at least 
part of this, but we will need to adjust the timeline, both for the 
rework and to have team members sign off.

We meet 10-12 December which leaves just one week before the holiday 
season. That will not be enough time to complete the substantive 
edits and to clean up the overall report. So we will definitely go 
into January. My target is to issue the report no later than the end 
of the month.

If there is a 50 day public comment once submitted to the Board 
(which is what was done for the CCT Review), that puts the comment 
ending about a week after the end of the Kobe meeting.

I suggest that we plan for:

- An engagement session with the community; and

- An opportunity for the RT leadership (and possibly other team 
members if appropriate) to meeting with Board and/or ICANN Org to 
clarify or elaborate on any aspect of the report.

I have passed this by Chris and he supports it.

Cathrin and Susan, do you support this proposal?

The budget we used in stopping the public comment on short term 
actions included funding for a few people for the Kobe meeting and 
still came out using only $300k of the $690k allocated. I suggest 
that we look at funding up to three people for the meeting (people 
who authored key sections of the report and are not otherwise funded. 
(At this point I will likely need funding.)

Travel lists need to be submitted in about a week, so we will need to 
move fast if we proceed.

Alan