[RDS-WHOIS2-RT-Leadership_Staff] RDS-WHOIS2 Review Team

[U Of T]

I am working on my report on the plane, also reviewing your revisions. I will get you something before the weekend, fear not.

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> On Mar 5, 2019, at 12:58, Alan Greenberg <alan.greenberg at mcgill.ca> wrote:
> 
> Update on where we are:
> 
> - Volker said he would try to do it last weekend but nothing in from 
> him and mail auto-respond says he is en route to Kobe.
> 
> - Stephanie submitted her comments on the report, and I think is 
> planning on submitting a minority statement. It is not clear if she 
> is supporting all of the recommendations or not. She has said she 
> wants to support the consensus but has also raised an issue with one 
> recommendation.
> 
> This is my last day before I leave.
> 
> Alan
> 
> 
> At 28/02/2019 10:55 PM, Alan Greenberg wrote:
>> Hi Keith,
>> 
>> I am sending this message as Chair of the RDS-WHOIS2 Review Team to 
>> update you on the status of the Review.
>> 
>> It had been our intention to issue our Final Report by the end of 
>> 2018, but for a number of reasons, that proved not possible. 
>> Similarly, we were not able to make the fall-back date of 31 January 
>> 2019 but are trying to get it out prior to the leaving for the Kobe 
>> meeting. We are in the last editing phase but there is still one 
>> stumbling block - determining the final level of consensus on the 
>> recommendations.
>> 
>> The recommendations were largely finalized during our last 
>> face-to-face meeting on 10-12 December, subject to final editing. At 
>> that time, all team members indicated they supported the 
>> recommendations except for one member who objected to one 
>> recommendation. That recommendation was reworded to that team 
>> member's satisfaction, and no one registered any other dissent. 
>> Nevertheless, the team decided that we would hold a final consensus 
>> call to ensure that everyone was satisfied with the final intent and 
>> wording of the recommendations.
>> 
>> At this point, of the nine active and voting RT members, seven have 
>> formally given their final support for all recommendations. Despite 
>> several many requests and reminders for a response, two of the team 
>> members, Stephanie Perrin and Volker Greimann, appointed by the GNSO 
>> Council, have not responded.
>> 
>> Although I am sure that both Stephanie and Volker had good reason to 
>> have not been able to reply, we cannot further delay the issuance of 
>> the report.
>> 
>> I discussed the situation today with my leadership team (Susan 
>> Kawaguchi, appointed by the GNSO and Cathrin Bauer-Bulst, appointed 
>> by the GAC). We believe that based on the general support we had for 
>> the recommendations at the end of the last face-to-face meeting and 
>> shortly thereafter, and the lack of any message indicating that 
>> either Stephanie or Volker is NOT supporting any recommendation, we 
>> plan to declare that we have full consensus on all recommendations, 
>> noting this history and the lack of a reply from the two members.
>> 
>> As what I would consider a poorer alternative, we could just base 
>> consensus on the seven members who have provided final input (and 
>> effectively reducing the GNSO voting count from four to two).
>> 
>> As the Chair of the group appointing these two Review Team Members, 
>> I would appreciate hearing your views on this and having your 
>> support for proceeding with the first alternative.
>> 
>> Warm regards, Alan
>