<div dir="auto"><div>Hello John<br><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Sent from my mobile<br>Kindly excuse brevity and typos</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 1 Mar 2019, 15:01 John Laprise, <<a href="mailto:jlaprise@gmail.com">jlaprise@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Hi and thanks Olivier,<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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.<br></div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">SO: This suggest that the Board can't initiate this at the moment? Isn't the ccwg-stewardship, icann accountability, and the ongoing ePDP good examples of such?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Regards</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="auto">Sent from my Pixel 3XL<br><br>John Laprise, Ph.D.</div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Mar 1, 2019, 7:07 AM Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond <<a href="mailto:ocl@gih.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">ocl@gih.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Dear John,<br>
<br>
please be so kind to find my response below:<br>
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<div class="m_-627747639023637154m_-1192643701579581866moz-cite-prefix">On 01/03/2019 13:31, John Laprise
wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">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>
<br>
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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