Thread Subject: Re: November Draft Status / Additional Notes & Reminders

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From: Michele Budris
Date: Wed, Nov 28 2007 3:55 PM

I have corrected the breadcrumb information of the Nov 27 draft.

Sorry about that!

Michele

On Nov 28, 2007, at 3:44 PM, Mike Paciello wrote:

> TEITAC Committee Members:
>
> The November 27th TEITAC Draft has been updated with revisions
> resulting from the November meetings, including our plenary call
> yesterday. Due to the nature of our plenary meeting schedule over
> the next three weeks, we are designating this draft as the "Subpart
> A and Technical Provisions Working Draft". Each week the EWG will
> update the draft in accordance with approved revisions resulting
> from our plenary conference calls. We will maintain this revision
> process up to and including our December 18th plenary conference call.
>
> The draft is located on the wiki at: http://teitac.org/wiki/
> EWG:Draft_Nov_27. (Please note that the breadcrumb navigation says,
> "Editorial Working Group > October 26 Draft". However, the note
> immediately following this navigational aid states: "This draft is
> based on discussions at the November 2007 plenary meetings." In
> other words, you are viewing the current and correct draft!).
>
> Adjustments to the delivery schedule have been made to more
> accurately reflect the correct working schedule. This schedule is
> located at: http://teitac.org/wiki/
> Delivery_Plan_2007#Delivery_Schedule.
>
> Please note that the Co-Chairs have decided to enhance the
> provision consensus & review process in order to make better use of
> your time. Starting today and continuing through the December 18th
> plenary conference call, we will make the following adjustments:
>
> 1. Each plenary conference call will take place between 1:00 PM EST
> and 4:00 PM EST. This adds one hour to our current schedule.
>
> 2. We respectfully request that you refrain from submitting
> editorial comments that are the functional equivalent of
> wordsmithing. If you do submit editorial comments of this nature,
> the EWG will maintain them. However, these revisions will only be
> implemented if time allows and under advisement of the TEITAC co-
> chairs. The January meetings have been scheduled specifically for
> the purpose of final draft clean up. The remaining editorial
> comments will be addressed by the committee at that time.
>
> We appreciate that this last statement may be difficult for some to
> digest. We also appreciate that everyone is concerned with
> producing a quality draft submission. Please understand that we
> have approximately 75 provisions to review in 3 weeks. This means
> we must perform consensus review on 25 provisions each Tuesday.
> Yesterday we reviewed 7 in two hours and these provisions were
> expected to be easy to approve! Much of our time was spent
> wordsmithing provisions and not reflective or respective of
> individual committee member's valuable time. Keep in mind that most
> of the provisions have been in subcommittees who have worked
> extensively to produce provision wording that best describes the
> objective of the provision. Let's respect their hard work and
> diligent effort. We encourage you to focus on the task at hand:
> Determine consensus of each provision.
>
>
> Regards and thank you.
>
> Jim Tobias, Co-Chair
> Mike Paciello, Co-Chair
> TEITAC Home Page: www.teitac.org
> TEITAC Wiki: http://teitac.org/wiki/TEITAC_Wiki
>
>

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