All, Attached are the initial priority scores for Whois studies from the Business Constituency. Thanks, Liz -----Original Message----- From: Steve DelBianco [mailto:sdelbianco@actonline.org] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 8:14 AM To: Liz Gasster Cc: Chuck Gomes; Avri Doria Subject: BC priority scores for Whois Study Summary Liz -- here are initial priority scores for the BC. Just let me know if you have any questions. --Steve On 12/15/08 12:57 PM, "Liz Gasster" <Liz.gasster@icann.org> wrote:

The current matrix of WHOIS Constituency views has been uploaded to the WHOIS discussion area of the GNSO Council workspace (including numeric levels for the RyC constituency). You may find this at: https://st.icann.org/gnso-council/index.cgi?whois_discussion

Constituency representatives are urged to update the information currently posted using a numeric weighting scale as agreed on the last call:

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

Our next call is this Wednesday 17 December and call-in details will be provided shortly. If you have any difficulty updating the wiki or if you would prefer that we update, just send your information to me and I will take care of it.

Thanks, Liz

-----Original Message----- From: Gomes, Chuck [mailto:cgomes@verisign.com] Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 6:41 AM To: Avri Doria Cc: Council GNSO; Steve DelBianco; Steven Metalitz; Eulgen, Lee J.; Liz Gasster Subject: RE: [council] Revised Whois Study Summary

The attached file contains the RyC numberical priorties and feasibility entries. I used 0 to 5, where a 0 is used for a study that the RyC thought should not be pursued. In cases of combined studies where the RyC had assigned different priorities to studies in the combined group, I entered an approximate average (e.g., 4.5). I also added the following to the spreadsheet: 1) a new row to cover the study in Area 6 titled Met b; 2) a new column to identify the type of study (i.e., formal study, fact gathtering & analysis, or fact gathering only).

Chuck

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-----Original Message----- From: Avri Doria [mailto:avri@psg.com] Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 7:16 AM To: Gomes, Chuck Cc: Council GNSO; Steve DelBianco; Steven Metalitz; Eulgen, Lee J.; Liz Gasster Subject: Re: [council] Revised Whois Study Summary

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?

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