Re: [council] Working Groups for non PDP purposes
Hi all, this distinction has been discussed in the Policy & Implementation Working Group, which is currently beginning to explore possible criteria and other processes that may be suitable to use when the GNSO is asked, or wishes, to provide ³policy guidance² outside a PDP. In addition, it may be useful to note that the current WG Guidelines are not limited to just PDP WGs; as Avri noted, these WGs would not follow the Bylaws-mandated PDP steps of Issue Report etc. Cheers Mary Mary Wong Senior Policy Director Internet Corporation for Assigned Names & Numbers (ICANN) Telephone: +1 603 574 4892 Email: mary.wong@xxxxxxxxx * One World. One Internet. * -----Original Message----- From: Thomas Rickert <rickert@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thursday, May 8, 2014 at 3:26 PM To: Avri Doria <avri@xxxxxxx> Cc: "council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: [council] Working Groups for non PDP purposes > >Hi Avri, >thanks for your e-mail - actually a good thought! > >Best >Thomas > >Am 08.05.2014 um 20:40 schrieb Avri Doria: > >> >> Hi, >> >> I happen to be re-reading the GNSO Operating procedures in preparation >> for one of those newcomer webinars. Always good to have a refresher. >> >> I see nothing in it that prohibits us from creating a Working Group to >> resolve any issue we wish to resolve, even if it is not a PDP based Wg. >> >> So my question becomes, why don't we quickly charter WGs to resolve any >> of these interrupt issues. We can charter a group with a narrow >> question, a time limit and the resources to make a recommendation to the >> council. That would at least give the council the ability to then take >> a vote based on a bottom-up process that looked into the issue. >> >> Just a thought. This could give us a basis to work on. >> >> We might need some SCI assistance, not sure yet, to refine a couple of >> points to make this something that can occur quickly, such as voting on >> such a charter between meetings (the voting between meetings is already >> request already pending in the SCI), but unless I am mistaken we have no >> barrier to using our WG guidelines to actually get bottom-up work done >> outside of PDP constraints and time tables. Also, unless a WG is a PDP >> WG, it does not need to include the various stages of issues report, >> initial report etc. It can go from a GNSO Council Leadership >> constructed Charter, to an emergency meeting to vote on formation in >> less that the gap between two meetings. >> >> While this would not apply to creating policy which still requires a >> PDP, it could well resolve issues of whether something was consistent >> with policy. And could certainly work on issues to do with governance >> and transition. >> >> Just a thought. >> >> avri > > Attachment:
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