Hi all Just a couple of general comments. On the timeframe concern, I think we face a hard juggle to keep the times reasonably tight on the one hand (so things don't drag where a power should be used), and making sure the powers are actually workable. If we have to lengthen the times for any steps I think we should look for ways to not see the total timeframe to use a power blow out. My primary proposal to achieve that is to merge the petitioning and conference call steps. I wasn't able to be part of the discussion about the escalation process in Dublin because I was detained on other small groups, but I never supported adding another step to our quite clean "Petition, Forum, Decision" model from the second draft. So if we were to go ahead in this way, an SO or AC would decide to petition to use the power. If that petition was successful, according to its own rules, a Community Forum would be organised. I think we are clearer than we were at one point that the Community Forum isn't a chance for travelling and getting together in person: it's an online Adobe meeting, which is highly unlikely ever to take one day or two. In other words, having both a Conference Call and a Community Forum essentially duplicates the same thing, with no benefit that is entirely obvious. Merging the two steps will help avoid a time frame blowout. I can't recall whether or not we had said more than one SO or AC needed to petition to use a power but we could use the same threshold as required to hold a Forum, in merging the steps. On changing the #s to %s in the decision table, I don't know how workable this is - it risks unintentionally creating too-high thresholds or too-low ones, given the low number of SOs and ACs involved. I think I would prefer to stick with numbers, and adjusting them should the numbers of SOs or ACs change in future, but don't have a strong view about that. Hope this helps. cheers Jordan On 6 January 2016 at 15:55, Alice Jansen <alice.jansen@icann.org> wrote:

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