Thanks Alissa,

I’m afraid that I will not be able to join next week’s call (it will be during my night and I am driving the following morning early).  I am also away on holiday from tonight until Tuesday late.  So I thought it might be useful to put down just a couple of comments on the timeline.

I am basing my points on the optimised sheet.  I welcome what you are trying to do so that we have a real sense of delivery by end September.  I do not feel greatly convinced…

We obviously do need to show substantive progress by end of September.  At the least, we ought to be able to say to NTIA and more widely:

1.       This is the direction of travel

2.       These are the pieces that need to be finalised

3.       This is the timescale for those pieces to be delivered.

4.       So this is when the transition could be finalised (and then there is also the implementation period – the more complicated our solution, the longer that stage will take).

On specific points, I am concerned with the way this schedule deals with the two consultation periods.  I’m not sure that the first looking at the IETF & RIR pieces and the second the full works really works for me and 15 days for this second one seems unrealistic.  Yes, interested parties will only just have gone through the consultation period, but in fact what we will be looking for here is how the different elements will bed together.  So shouldn’t we really be looking at step 4.1 ending end week 1 August, all subsequent steps shifting right two blocks and then an iteration for a second consultation to closure as per the previous timescale?

We should also look some time after delivery of the CWG input into the timescale to prepare the right material for NTIA for end September (or more correctly beginning of October when they can start to work on it again).

Thanks and have a good call next week.

Martin

Here is a proposed agenda for the teleconference we are currently doodling about for next week. Please comment.