[Pnp-wg] moving forward

[Greg Gerritt]

So far this working group has not developed a plan for pulling its work
together.  We have already gottien into a discussion of important issues,
but we appear to be doing it without a strong grounding or an understanding
of how to use the information.

I would like to suggest a work plan.  I believe that first we need good
information.  We need to know exactly what was done last time.  We can
divide the timeline events, and a few others

(Note I left off the time line the passage of rules laying out the size of
the various stae delegations  Nov 2003, and the passage of convention rules
may 2004.  both were done rather late in the game and should be finished
much earlier next time.P)

up and small teams can do more intensive research into what was actually
done.

While issues of strategy can beimortant, this working group has a wide
divergence on strategy issues, and it may be that no two peolle on it would
have done these thngs exactly the same way. Therefore to bring up strategy
until the wg has developed a habit of working together and found some common
ground is likely to create tensions that make it nearly impossible to do
much productive work.

Therefore I reiterate.  Let us do some serious research, divide up into
small gorups to research and report on the various segments of the tie line.
After we have knowledge about what was actualy done, we can look at it for
weaknesses ands strengths.  At that point we can also integrate strategy
into the mix.  

I am willing to work on almost any segment of the timeline to go back to the
voting page and recover the original documents, to look into impementation
and write a short report laying out first the facts, and then some analysis.

As a way to getting this started I volunteer to fully research and describe
the Initial Point of Contact program unles someone else really has a jones
to look into that. If so i will volunteer to lok into the materials
available on how the size of each states delegation was determined and to
provide a chart of options for determinig delegation sizes.

Is there someone who would be willing to keep a record of who volunteers for
which topic that are listed in the timeline (please note I am most open to
anyone adding a similar type of topic to the list laid out in the timeline
and for research to be undertaken on that topic) ?

I will also suggest that each of these reports be circulated to the working
group by March 10. 

greg gerritt