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

[Cathrin.BAUER-BULST at ec.europa.eu]

I support!
Cathrin

> On 30 Oct 2018, at 20:57, Alan Greenberg <alan.greenberg at mcgill.ca> wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
> 
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