[ALAC] Bad Actor Admission

John Laprise jlaprise at gmail.com
Fri Mar 1 17:56:42 UTC 2019


Ok, so yes, staff.

Sent from my Pixel 3XL

John Laprise, Ph.D.

On Fri, Mar 1, 2019, 11:52 AM Alan Greenberg <alan.greenberg at mcgill.ca>
wrote:

> John, "ICANN org" is just staff - the CEO and down.
>
> Alan
>
> At 01/03/2019 12:45 PM, John Laprise wrote:
>
> Not just staff...I was thinking ICANN org leadership...needs authority
>
> Sent from my Pixel 3XL
>
> 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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