Workshop Session 1
Workshop Session 1 will be the primary opportunity for Moving Parties and other carrier-aligned parties to present and answer questions about their concerns with the draft decision, as suggested in the Motion. Moving Parties will be required to prepare jointly a summary of each topic they propose be covered in Session 1, following these criteria:
All information relating to each proposed workshop topic must be on a separate sheet, and must not exceed the equivalent in length of one twelve-point, one and one-half line spaced page with standard margins.
Each topic sheet shall very briefly describe the concern it addresses and reference the specific part(s) of the draft decision and rules to which it relates, or state that it is not in the current draft decision and rules if that is the case. The workshop, not the topic sheet, is the proper place for more detailed explanation and advocacy.
Each topic sheet must identify a pre-workshop contact person and a suggested topic coordinator and/or presenter(s) for that topic. Show each individual's name, party, telephone, and e-mail address.
The suggested time to be allotted to each topic must be shown.
Legal issues are not proper topics for these workshops and are not to be listed. This includes, e.g., claims of overlap or conflict with statutes and/or FCC mandates, jurisdictional concerns, and legal inadequacies in the decision or rules or in the process the proceeding has followed. Any legal claims and argument must instead be presented in the written comments and replies to comments.
It is strongly suggested that parties focus most of their attention on any perceived factual and technical errors, inconsistencies, and implementation problems in the draft decision and proposed rules. Rearguing policy-based outcomes without pointing to errors or previously unconsidered facts is unlikely to be the best use of the available workshop time.
Other carrier-aligned parties are strongly encouraged to collaborate with Moving Parties in drafting the Session 1 proposed topics. However, any carrier-aligned party may at its option propose alternative topics, following the same criteria, if it is unable to endorse those jointly prepared by Moving Parties.
Not later than July 18th, Moving Parties and other carrier-aligned parties are to serve (but need not file) their Session 1 proposed topic summaries on all other parties in the Appearances and State Service categories of the then-current service list for the proceeding on the Commission's Web site. In addition to the service set forth in the Commission's Rules of Practice and Procedure, Rule 2.3, parties are required to provide an electronic copy of their proposed topic summaries to all other parties who have included an e-mail address in their service list information (see the comma-delimited file linked from the Web site), and to: the Assigned Commissioner's office (jol@cpuc.ca.gov); the Administrative Law Judge (jcm@cpuc.ca.gov); and the Telecommunications Division representative (rhh@cpuc.ca.gov).
