All, Following up on our discussion regarding the charter for the "RAA Remaining Issues PDP" on our call on Thursday last week, I hope that we can start a discussion right away regarding possible revisions to the draft charter prepared by staff which I forwarded to you all just prior to our meeting. I believe our aim should be to form a view as to whether or not the draft charter, as amended according to our anticipated discussions, is a document that can be voted on for adoption at our next Council meeting. As a reminder, our options are essentially either: 1. Discuss and revise this draft charter for formal adoption by the Council, which will then proceed to form a Working Group (WG) to begin work; or 2. Create a Drafting Team (DT) to finalize a charter - based either upon this draft or starting from a blank slate - to be proposed for adoption at a later Council meeting. On our Thursday call last week, several Councillors supported option 1 above as a pragmatic way forward i.e. to see if we can find agreement as to the terms of the charter that will govern the WG's work. I am therefore circulating the draft Charter again (re-titled and slightly revised to more accurately reflect the scope of the PDP) for discussion. My sense is that the scope will be largely governed by the specific issues that are laid out in Section III of the draft Charter. So, perhaps we can start by discussing possible revisions to these questions, not in terms of substantive discussion over the merits or content of the answers, but in relation to whether they sufficiently describe and frame the scope of work for the WG. If we are able to reach agreement within the next week, we can then propose the revised charter for adoption on 21 October i.e. within the document deadline for our upcoming 31 October meeting. I look forward to an engaging and constructive discussion on the list on this topic. Thanks, Jonathan