Dear all,

Thank you all for your very timely and thoughtful comments, in some cases (like Justine) in very thorough and helpful detail. Please find attached, for what staff hopes is a final review by this Sub Team, an updated List of Consolidated URS Provider Questions. This version reflects what we believe are the most recent agreements within the Sub Team, incorporates new suggested changes from the last version circulated, and for ease of review discards most of the previous redlined text that were either merely typos/formatting, or that reflected “old” comments that have since been resolved or superseded.

As you review this version, please note the following:

• We have highlighted in yellow those questions in the main text where we believe a Sub Team decision still needs to be made, or that otherwise requires additional clarification;
• We have highlighted text in some comment boxes in yellow as well – these generally indicate follow up information which in staff’s belief answers some questions or provides additional context;
• In cases where additional staff review – either of the data we compiled for the URS Documents Sub Team or via an initial review of Professor Rebecca Tushnet’s data results – seemed to us to have provided the full answer to a question, we have also highlighted the question in grey as being suggested for DELETION and crossed it out in the main text. Please note that this means, in a few cases, we have not incorporated a Sub Team suggestion to retain a question. We have, however, retracted our previous suggestions for some other deletions where our follow up review of the data seemed to show at best a partial answer to a question. We welcome the Sub Team’s confirmation or correction of these few staff suggestions.

We hope this is helpful to you as you review the final proposed list of questions. As mentioned previously, our aim is to send the questions out before the end of the week; as such, it will be greatly appreciated if you can limit any comments to substantive concerns that have not yet been raised previously; or to providing guidance on the remaining questions where the text specifies the need to choose a final formulation; or to correct any errors or omissions on the staff’s part. Please be so kind as to revert by 1200 UTC on Thursday 3 May.

Thank you!

Cheers

Mary, Julie, Ariel & Berry