[council] Revised Whois Study Summary

[Tim Ruiz]

I also agree with Avri's suggested approach.

Tim 


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Subject: Re: [council] Revised Whois Study Summary
From: William Drake <william.drake at graduateinstitute.ch>
Date: Thu, December 11, 2008 6:41 am
To: Avri Doria <avri at psg.com>
Cc: Chuck Gomes <cgomes at verisign.com>, Council GNSO
<council at gnso.icann.org>, Steve DelBianco
<sdelbianco at netchoice.org>, Steven Metalitz <met at msk.com>,
"Eulgen, Lee J." <LEulgen at ngelaw.com>, Liz Gasster
<liz.gasster at icann.org>

Hi, 

This strikes me as an eminently sensible approach that would capture the
range of viewpoints across constituencies better than the existing
labels and also facilitate more precise tabulation of results.


Best,


Bill

On Dec 11, 2008, at 1:16 PM, Avri Doria wrote:

hi Chuck,


I was working on how I was going to work with the other NCAs to figure
out our collective viewpoint and went back to your original document
where instead of using the words Top/Med/Low you used values from
5-[1,0] (not sure you allowed for 0).


In terms of figuring out where the top priorities really are on a
council wide basis, i think it would be good to go back to those values
and then we could ado simple stats on them to see which really were the
top priority items on a council wide basis.  And by allowing a value of
0 for no-study we take into account the possible viewpoint of RC and
NCUC and perhaps others on specific studies they feel are not worth
doing.


In terms of values it could be something like:


Priority


Top = 5
Medium high = 4
Medium = 3
Medium low = 2
Low = 1
No study = 0




and for Feasibility


yes = 1
maybe/don't know = 0
no = -1


I also recommend that, for now, we unify the table without separating it
for top/med/low and fill in numeric values for all of the
constituencies, NCA, ALAC, and GAC if they are interested (though we can
assume they give top marks to the studies they recommended).  This will
allow us to sort on the stats to get a better picture.


I have attached a sample excel file (haven't put in the equations yet) 
that would capture it.  With a 'little' bit of work, for some value of
'little', it could be turned into a form that the constituencies could
just fill in the values for.  Alternatively, each constituency could
submit its values.


This is just a suggestion, but I cannot think of a non numerical way to
make sure that all of the constituencies valuations are all taken into
account.  I.e. how do we turn a bunch of low, med and highs into an
average without using numbers?


a.

<whois-studies-cummulative.xls>







On 10 Dec 2008, at 14:11, Gomes, Chuck wrote:


Please disregard the previous Whois Studies Summary document and replace
it with this one.  It is requested that the RC, ISCPC, NCUC, ALAC and
NomCom reps fill in the two column of boxes in the table and send the
file back saved with the same file name with the group initials added.


Thanks, Chuck
<Whois Studies Summary 10 Dec 08 v2.doc>




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