Dear TPR WG,
Please find attached a proposal from staff
to reorder the Group 1A recommendations for the full Initial
Report. You’ll recall this being discussed at our last working
group call on May 21st. Staff have compiled all of
the proposed recommendations into the draft report including
the charter questions, WG responses, recommendation text, and
rationale. It made the core body of the report around 100
pages (140+ total).
To help reduce the length for the core part
of the report, staff had the idea to place the charter
questions and WG deliberation summaries (required for
transparency) into an annex and create forward and backward
navigation links within the document should the reader choose
to dive deeper to better understand a proposed recommendation.
However, what we encountered was the current order of the
recommendation text lost its context to its corresponding
charter question and as a result the recommendation text
seemed illogical. It’s staff view, even with the charter
questions and WG responses and its current order of
recommendations, it is still very confusing in addition to
being lengthy. Our goal is make this report as easy to
understand as possible given that most consumers will not be
as intimate with the proposed recommendations as the WG.
Thus, the idea was to find a more logical
order of the recommendations matching the flow we’ve been
using alongside the TPR Group 1A swimlane. Within the .DOCX,
you will see the new proposed order with redlines of the prior
recommendation number along with the new recommendation
number. Note, this document is not to be referenced as
authoritative recommendation text. It is only for the purpose
to illustrate the proposed reordering. The second attachment
(PDF) is an updated swimlane that you all should be familiar
with. This latest version includes an update to the post
transfer restriction exception procedure (formerly rec #17)
and updated recommendation labels where a recommendation in
the report is directly represented on the swimlane.
Disclaimers about the swimlane:
- The swimlane
is only a conceptual representation of a proposed transfer
process only acting as a guide to easily understand the
proposed Group 1A recommendations. It is NOT a policy
requirements document.
- The swimlane
it constructed as a very high-level. It does not account for
all variations of possible transfer transactions given the
varying business models and business procedures across
contracted parties.
- Where a
process step box does not have a recommendation label, it is
NOT specific to any proposed recommendation or a policy
requirement. These process steps are only used to maintain
logical continuity of a transfer transaction from beginning
to end.
- A deficiency
of the swimlane model is it does NOT accurately represent
time scales. This conceptual model blends system processes
that occur in seconds, vs business procedures that can vary
from near seconds to several days vs. proposed durations
based on the policy recommendations.
Finally, this is only a proposal. The
ultimate decision to reorder the Group 1A recommendations is
for the WG and Chair. If we have time on our 4 June conference
call, we can make this an AoB item.
Thank you.
B
Berry
Cobb
Policy
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