[ALAC] Bad Actor Admission

[Alan Greenberg]

Olivier, I generally agree with your post, but to correct a few errors, the Board can request that the GNSO initiate a PDP and the GNSO must act (that is how the Next-Generation RDS PDP was initiated), and it is not just a belief of the GNSO that a PDP must be used to create gTLD policy recommendations - that is what the Bylaws dictate. HOWEVER, there is nothing to stop the GNSO using a CCWG structure for a PDP if it chose to. In fact, the EPDP could be viewed as a variant of the CCWG format.

Alan

At 01/03/2019 08:07 AM, Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond 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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