lack of quorum for today's RM quarterly meeting

All,

We lacked quorum today for the RM quarterly meeting. Topics that needed to be discussed were

- Review of RAF work status, in particular, the ecosystem view and management

- Way forward to the next public review

- Interactions with other organizations

For those involved in the RAF work, the second item is most important. As introduced briefly at last week’s RAF meeting, I would like to conduct a preliminary review of the entire document before we go to our next public review. By this, I mean I would like several people to commit to a careful read of some sections (with the sum of all commitments to cover every word in the document) looking for

- Minor glitches that can easily be fixed without controversy but which improve the overall impression that this is a carefully constructed document. For example, this could range from simple typos and broken links to a paragraph that was carefully debated and reworded several years ago and which no longer makes as much sense as it did during the immersion of the debate.

- Catastrophic shortcomings that are glaring enough that if publicly identified would cause us undue embarrassment and seriously detract from the future document. Note, I want a thorough review but catastrophic will have to be proven beyond a shadow of reasonable doubt.

I expect there are many of the first and I expect none of the second. However, your review should look for both. Rather than compiling an issues spreadsheet, a Word document will be uploaded that will be identified as the gold copy. Each person can download the gold copy, make modifications as appropriate, and then rename it by appending their initials. We will need to identify one or more people to take responsibility for incorporating changes into the gold copy that we will eventually vote for public review.

In addition, you may uncover other issues that will need further adjudication. Please save these for the public review period. I do not intend for us to do a full adjudication cycle before a public review, and significant immediate rewriting will only be done under the most extreme duress.

The questions on proceeding are

- Does this email adequately set the guidelines and process for the review?

- We will need to schedule a RM meeting before the next quarterly meeting in order to vote on a public review motion. Do we need a meeting prior to that or can this as described be done on the email list?

If this is satisfactory, please let me know which sections you will commit to review. You are encouraged to read as much of the document as possible but your most careful review should be on the sections you identify. If possible, you should choose something which you did not yourself write; we need to ensure our writing is broadly understandable by others.

What did I miss?

Ken

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Dr. Kenneth Laskey

MITRE Corporation, M/S H305 phone: 703-983-7934

7515 Colshire Drive fax: 703-983-1379

McLean VA 22102-7508

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