First I want to thank Milton for reporting out the issues that the coordination group (CG) will be dealing with at the start, and look forward to ongoing reporting back the constituency. With regard to GAC asking for greater representation, I would suggest that GAC be reminded that this is a coordination group charged with coordinating submissions and proposals and its members have two responsibilities. One is to exercise that charge and the other is to help the committee keep all stakeholders involved. The GAC members on the committee have those same responsibilities and if, by chance, there are a wide variety of opinions across GAC members about how the proposal is developing, individual GAC members, like all other stakeholders, are free and welcomed to make their positions known directly to the coordination group through their submissions. This is how the process is facilitated and nobody should view it as a roadblock, they should view it as an opportunity. The key task of the coordination committee is, of course, to pull the submissions into proposal format, which may or may not be a proposal in which all issues are settled. It may be a proposal with a set of issues yet to be settled by ICANN's multistakeholder process. That would be a reasonable outcome. With respect to the transition scope and expectations about work in the communities, I will repeat that the coordination process should produce its best version of a transition proposal, but it may also produce a list of issues that require further deliberation to be resolved. It might produce a Green Paper that that details some of the specific issues, points out possible courses of action, and makes a suggested transition proposal as a starting point for round two of reasoned dialogue between stakeholder constituencies and others. Round two produced the White Paper proposals. Sam L. On 12/07/2014 11:45 AM, Milton L Mueller wrote: > The coordination group will meet in London next week for its first f2f meeting. We've also had an initial conference call. > > I want to solicit your opinion on two immediate issues we will face. > > <issues deleted> -- ------------------------------------------------ "It is a disgrace to be rich and honoured in an unjust state" -Confucius ------------------------------------------------ Dr Sam Lanfranco (Prof Emeritus & Senior Scholar) Econ, York U., Toronto, Ontario, CANADA - M3J 1P3 email: [log in to unmask] Skype: slanfranco blog: http://samlanfranco.blogspot.com Phone: +1 613-476-0429 cell: +1 416-816-2852