[ALAC] Bad Actor Admission

[John Laprise]

Not just staff...I was thinking ICANN org leadership...needs authority

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John Laprise, Ph.D.

On Fri, Mar 1, 2019, 9:02 AM Alan Greenberg <alan.greenberg at mcgill.ca>
wrote:

> John, do you really mean "ICANN org", ie staff, to make that decision?
>
> Alan
> --
> Sent from my mobile. Please excuse brevity and typos.
>
> On March 1, 2019 9:00:50 AM EST, John Laprise <jlaprise at 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.
>>
>> Sent from my Pixel 3XL
>>
>> John Laprise, Ph.D.
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 1, 2019, 7:07 AM Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond <ocl at 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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