[ALAC] Bad Actor Admission

[Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond]

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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