Hi Rafik,
Thank you for your response to my observations and questions, and thanks for your hard work as Council liaison and Vice Chair. As you know, as managers of this expedited PDP process, we need to make sure Council receives early warning of
any potential issues or road blocks. I encourage you and Kurt to proactively communicate with Council when faced with impediments to the success of the ePDP. I have some follow up thoughts to your responses:
Finally, I am concerned with the part of your response where you say the working group still needs to figure out what the outcome of the EPDP should be. How can the group organize its work if they do not know what they are working towards
as a deliverable? I’d appreciate an update to Council from you or Kurt on this matter specifically.
Thanks and regards,
Keith
From: Rafik Dammak <rafik.dammak@gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2018 8:32 PM
To: Drazek, Keith <kdrazek@verisign.com>
Cc: Darcy Southwell <darcy.southwell@endurance.com>; Council GNSO <council@gnso.icann.org>; Kurt Pritz <kurt@kjpritz.com>
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [council] EPDP Weekly update
Hi Keith,
thanks for the comments and suggestions, I am responding to the extent of possible and quickly. I put Kurt in cc as he can add more comments to some of them as they seem addressed to EPDP leadership.
Le mer. 12 sept. 2018 à 04:05, Drazek, Keith <kdrazek@verisign.com> a écrit :
Hi all,
I have joined a couple of the recent EPDP WG calls as an observer, and I have a few observations and questions we should consider. From a Council “process management” perspective, these are intended to be constructive in the hopes of ensuring success of the EPDP:
- Following the Triage exercise, the EPDP working group does not appear to be working toward answering the questions contained in the Charter in a systematic way. What was the decision process behind not following the Charter questions? When will the group return to the Charter questions?
I think that was not clear and missing from our side, but the thinking from leadership and support staff is to use the "Discussion Summary Index" to include the charter questions and the relevant temp spec sections in same place. The
idea is that through updates to the temp spec, the charter questions will be answered using the rationale for the changes for that purpose.
- What does the WG leadership see as the ultimate outcome of this EPDP, and what do we as Council expect the deliverable to be? Rather than focusing on the gating questions enumerated in the Charter, the WG has been engaged in a Temp Spec red-lining exercise. Is our expected deliverable a list of policy recommendations or a revised version of the Temporary Specification? Or both? We should all be clear on the expected deliverable.
it is likely to be both redlines and policy recommendations. The aim would be to get the EPDP team to agree on the outcome from this effort and being clear about that.
I concurr with you that we have to be more clear about the expected deliverable and I know that some SGs already raised those questions.
- After 12 meetings and the Triage process, there doesn’t appear to be much progress toward consensus. It seems that different groups keep restating their positions with little variation when it comes to discussing purposes. Does leadership have a plan for breaking through this and moving the ball forward? Do we as Council need to provide additional guidance or clarification?
I think the council guidance to the EPDP leadership is important and helpful. We suggested a new approach to manage our calls with aim to get things done and everyone focused on the same goal than getting the same arguments/positions
rehashed. Other approaches are under discussion or to be discussed to use them to make more steady progress.
- Noting that the discussion on many calls seems to meander, it might be helpful for leadership and staff to identify a goal or goals that the day’s discussion is meant to achieve, and to communicate such goal(s) to the WG prior to the call along with the agenda.
that is something we are working toward as the number of calls left is limited. We are currently discussing changes on the agenda and stating goals and deliverables for each topic in order to steer the deliberations. I understand that
messaging and communciation have to be improved in order to get all EPDP members understand what we are trying to achieve and have everyone on board.
- Have leadership and staff developed a plan for how to structure the face-to-face meeting in Los Angeles later this month?
we are working on that currently and aiming to share details with EPDP team asap.