Hello John Sent from my mobile Kindly excuse brevity and typos On Fri, 1 Mar 2019, 15:01 John Laprise, <jlaprise@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi and thanks Olivier,
My apologies for not being clear. I was suggesting a possible bylaws change where in ICANN org can ask the community to initiate policy development when it sees an urgent/important need that the community has not noticed.
SO: This suggest that the Board can't initiate this at the moment? Isn't the ccwg-stewardship, icann accountability, and the ongoing ePDP good examples of such? Regards
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John Laprise, Ph.D.
On Fri, Mar 1, 2019, 7:07 AM Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond <ocl@gih.com> wrote:
Dear John,
please be so kind to find my response below:
On 01/03/2019 13:31, John Laprise wrote:
Well said Evan and I share your concerns. If memory serves, so does the Board as MSM threats is a strategic planning issue. Musing upon waking I was wondering whether it would help if we could implement a mechanism whereby ICANN org could ask the empowered community to implement a pdp? This might've avoided the current epdp issue.
The ICANN Board and the Empowered Community cannot implement or launch PDPs relating to gTLDs. The "PDP" as such is a defined term for "Policy Development Process" and in the context of the Generic Names, only the GNSO can launch a PDP. In the context of Country Codes Names, when it relates to global policy, the ccNSO can launch a PDP. The Board can ask the GNSO to launch a PDP on a gTLD related issue, but the GNSO can refuse.
The Board can also ask the ICANN communities, SOs/ACs to launch a Cross Community Working Group (CCWG). However, there are doubts expressed in the GNSO that CCWGs should *not* be the basis for policy making for gTLDs as all policy making for gTLDs should go through a PDP.
It's a power game and the bottom line is who has the control of policy processes on gTLDs. Kindest regards,
Olivier
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