Marika

Thanks – yes, good point. The GAC needs to get into a position of being able to sift the PDPs quickly in order to identify only those where it has a substantial public policy interest which would merit direct involvement in the policy development. How we get to that decision stage is dependant on the information submitted to the GAC. This information should capture the essence of each proposal as concisely as possible but should not pre-empt GAC consideration of its response: it should not be in the form of advice or a recommendation.

I expect in more complex proposals, some discussion around the GAC table may be needed with the ability to ask questions of experts for clarification but I hope that this step of GAC assessment of public policy interest will be easier to facilitate than it sounds!

I expect it is also quite possible that a substantive public policy interest may not emerge until some time after the PDP has been launched so I guess some kind of a trigger would be required for reverting the PDP notification process back to the GAC for it to consider possible involvement.

I hope that these comments are helpful.

Kind regards

Mark      

Mark Carvell

United Kingdom Representative on the Governmental Advisory Committee of ICANN

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