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Dear John,<br>
<br>
please be so kind to find my response below:<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 01/03/2019 13:31, John Laprise
wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite"
cite="mid:CAAekxJX98sXs-LjyAh7mdBTG8fy=7tK5rs3RPyap5dL7OpgBAQ@mail.gmail.com">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.</blockquote>
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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.<br>
The Board can ask the GNSO to launch a PDP on a gTLD related issue,
but the GNSO can refuse.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
It's a power game and the bottom line is who has the control of
policy processes on gTLDs.<br>
Kindest regards,<br>
<br>
Olivier<br>
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