[council] Public Comment: The GNSO Council is Requesting Your Input on the New GNSO Policy Development Process

[Glen de Saint Géry <Glen@xxxxxxxxx>]

http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-2-09jun11-en.htm

Public Comment: The GNSO Council is Requesting Your Input on the New GNSO 
Policy Development Process

9 June 2011

As part of the GNSO Improvements Process, which has as its objective to improve 
the structure and operations of the Generic Names Supporting Organization 
(GNSO), the Policy Development Process Work Team (PDP-WT) has now 
submitted<http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-31may11-en.htm> to 
the GNSO Council its Final Report that outlines the proposed new GNSO Policy 
Development Process in the form of forty-seven (47) recommendations, an outline 
of the proposed new Annex A - GNSO Policy Development Process for the ICANN 
Bylaws as well as a supporting document that is envisioned to be included in 
the GNSO Council Operating Procedures as the PDP Manual (see 
http://gnso.icann.org/issues/pdp-wt-final-report-final-31may11-en.pdf [PDF, 
1.39 MB]. Prior to considering this Final Report, the GNSO Council is seeking 
your input. Comments on the PDP-WT Final Report, including the recommendations, 
the outline of the proposed Annex A and the PDP Manual can be submitted until 9 
July 2011 (see details on how to submit comments below). Following the public 
comment period, the GNSO Council will review the comments received and 
determine whether additional modifications need to be made to the report or 
whether the new GNSO Policy Development Process is ready for adoption following 
which it will be submitted to the ICANN Board for its consideration.

Background

On 26 June 2008 the ICANN Board approved a set of 
recommendations<http://www.icann.org/en/minutes/resolutions-26jun08.htm> 
designed to improve the effectiveness of the GNSO, including its policy 
activities, structure, operations, and communications. The following pertains 
to the PDP-WT's mission:

Revising the PDP: The Policy Development Process (PDP) needs to be revised to 
make it more effective and responsive to ICANN's needs. It should be brought 
in-line with the time and effort actually required to develop policy and made 
consistent with ICANN's existing contracts (including, but not limited to, 
clarifying the appropriate scope of GNSO "consensus policy" development). While 
the procedure for developing "consensus policies" will need to continue to be 
established by the Bylaws as long as required by ICANN's contracts, the GNSO 
Council and Staff should propose new PDP rules for the Board's consideration 
and approval that contain more flexibility. The new rules should emphasize the 
importance of the preparation that must be done before launch of a working 
group or other activity, such as public discussion, fact-finding, and expert 
research in order to properly define the scope, objective, and schedule for a 
specific policy development goal and the development of metrics for measuring 
success. The revised PDP, after review and approval by the GNSO Council and 
ICANN Board, would replace the current PDP defined in Annex A of the ICANN 
bylaws.

Background Documents / Links

 *   PDP-WT Final 
Report<http://gnso.icann.org/issues/pdp-wt-final-report-final-31may11-en.pdf> 
[PDF, 1.39 MB]
 *   Proposed Final Report Public Comment Review 
Tool<http://gnso.icann.org/issues/pdp-wt-public-comments-review-tool-24may11-en.pdf>
 [PDF, 196 KB]
 *   PDP-WT Proposed Final 
Report<http://gnso.icann.org/issues/pdp-wt-proposed-final-report-21feb11-en.pdf>
 [PDF, 1.21 MB]
 *   PDP-WT Initial 
Report<http://gnso.icann.org/issues/pdp-initial-report-31may10-en.pdf> [PDF, 
2.35 MB]
 *   PDP-WT Workspace<https://community.icann.org/display/gnsoppsc/PDP-WT+Home>
 *   GNSO Improvements<http://gnso.icann.org/en/improvements/>

Deadline and How to Submit Comments

 *   Comments are welcome via e-mail to 
pdp-final-report@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:pdp-final-report@xxxxxxxxx> until 9 July 2011.
 *   Access to the public comment forum from which comments can be posted can 
be found at: 
http://www.icann.org/en/public-comment/public-comment-201107-en.htm#pdp-final-report
 *   An archive of all comments received will be publicly posted at: 
http://forum.icann.org/lists/pdp-final-report/

Staff Responsible: Marika Konings







Glen de Saint Géry

GNSO Secretariat

gnso.secretariat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

http://gnso.icann.org