RE: [nc-transfer] TOR: RC Draft

["Cade,Marilyn S - LGA" <mcade@att.com>]

Ross, thank you for your comments. 


Everyone has done ther best to meet the schedule, and I plan to create a
revised ToR based on input to date, and to repost Monday, with a 3 day turn
around.

 For anyone who hasn't commented to date, you have tomorrow on this round.
Then, I'll post a revised ToR by Monday; you will then have 3 days for any
further comments. 

Marilyn

-----Original Message-----
From: Ross Wm. Rader [mailto:ross@tucows.com]
Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 12:19 AM
To: nc-transfer@dnso.org
Subject: [nc-transfer] TOR: RC Draft


All,

I have taken Milton's suggestions and made a few modifications that I
believe put this document much closer to completion. I have taken the
liberty of doing a redline of the original Cade draft and the Mueller draft.
I then blue-lined my changes against the Mueller draft.

For convenience, please find both a redline version and a clean version
attached to this message in MS-DOC format- ASCII text follows the body of
this message below.

Specifics

I'm not sure that I am completely happy with the modifications that I've
made to sections 5 & 6 - my intent may not be clear. The purpose of the
modifications to these two sections were made to clarify the consensus
policy approach that we are taking. If my modifications are inconsistent
with the by-laws, lets talk further as I made these edits in order to ensure
closer synchronicity with the terms of the by-laws.

You will also notice that I picked some arbitrary dates in section 6. I have
no real preference as to the specific dates but also realize that sooner or
later we are going to need to pick some concrete deadlines. If these are
achievable, lets try and leave them in, if not, lets discuss further and
modify appropriately.

A reasonable body of work has already been completed concerning point #3
below - I hope to have most of these items collected and synthesized by
Monday at which point I will start forwarding more concrete thoughts to the
list for further discussion.

My only concern about the TOR is that they may be to broad. I would like to
discuss this with the TF further. If we hope to achieve our work roughly
according to the schedule below, we may have to be more specific in setting
our goals up-front.

Comments/questions, as always, welcomed.

-rwr
t.416.538.5492


nctf-transfers-tor-draft-v0r0d4-112901
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