[Ws2-jurisdiction] Mandate and Scope of Jurisdiction Subgroup will be on Tuesday's Agenda

[Greg Shatan]

All,

I wanted to provide advance notice that we will pick up the discussion of
the Subgroup's Mandate and Scope on Tuesday's call, with the goal of
settling the issue over this call and the next. After all, we need to know
what our mandate is in order to know if we ar fulfilling it. Some notes:

1. It's not up to the Subgroup to define the Subgroup's mandate and Scope.
This has been done in the foundational documents -- Charter. WS 1 Report
and Transition Bylaw. What we need to do is clarify our understanding of
that mandate and Scope.

2. As such, the foundational documents need to form both the basis and the
boundary of any such clarification or proposal for clarification. These
documents were excerpted in my "straw man" mandate document sent around in
the last few weeks.

3. Mandate and Scope (defined in these documents) need to be distinguished
from potential issues participants might raise. Such issues, by and large,
are not mentioned in the foundational documents.

4. The Mandate and Scope will be used to determine if any potential issue
is "in scope".

5. Discussions of the issue on the list in advance of the call will be most
helpful, since the call is only an hour.

6. While some have said we have gone in circles on this issue, or avoided
resolving it. The goal here and now is to avoid that fate, whatever the
outcome might be.

Finally, I request broad participation on this issue, even if you have
given up on this subject of discussion.

Thank you.

Greg
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