Dear ALAC colleagues,
I thought I might provide an extracted update on the (impending) output of the GNSO Council GNSO DNS Abuse PDP 1 Charter Review Team.
As at 19 Dec 2025, the draft charter is proposed to be as per in
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LianKX5OTgIdecUgPaCTDDqU3o-IvaAoNTFl8M47QBk/edit?usp=sharing where I have extracted the key parts and highlighted the changes in
yellow for easier consumption.
In short,
- The charter questions have been made more high level, less prescriptive to allow the PDP WG some flexibility while still have enough guardrails to keep it tightly focused.
- The PDP WG model has been revised to "Representative" (instead of "Representative+Open") to keep the WG numbers 'manageable' while still allowing a handful more people to participate:
- The ALAC now is designated 2 Members, 1 Participant and 1 Alternate (+ infinite number of Observers)
- Only Members will be involved in a consensus call; otherwise the Participants can engage as freely as Members
- An Alternate can only participate if a Member is not on the call; an Alternate cannot stand in for an absent Participant
- Consensus call will be based on participating groups and not number of Members in each participating group - thus, even though RrSG is designated 4 Members because of the argument that 4 would be needed to enable different registrar business models to be heard, RrSG will be considered as ONE group during consensus call.