RE: [gnso-ppsc-pdp] Action Items From Thursday's Call and Updated Draft PDP-WT WORK PLAN

[Liz Gasster <liz.gasster@xxxxxxxxx>]

Liz,

Thanks so much for your ideas and energy to get things going!  Glen is working 
on another scheduling exercise to see if we can come to a more convenient time 
for all.

I do want to respond to your concern about time being spent on how the work 
should be done rather than actually doing the work, and Margie's role with 
regard to "starting that drafting effort".

It is important for the whole work team to understand that this team will be 
led by the team itself, it is incumbent on the community, as represented by 
this group, to decide how to organize the work to be done and to direct any 
drafting effort that occurs.  This is not the role of ICANN staff.  Some of you 
are very familiar with Annex A of the Bylaws and I'm sure you who are more 
expert have a strong sense of how you think things should occur.  There are 
also others on the team who are newer to the policy development process and 
just beginning to think about various new approaches.  Hopefully we will find a 
better time for future calls, and you can share some of your suggestions to the 
team in real-time, but meanwhile we need to give the group a chance to 
self-organise the work as it sees fit.

Staff does not yet have an assignment from the team to draft anything and we 
will not "start drafting" until the group defines what/how they would like us 
to proceed.  We are very willing to jump in and draft language as requested (we 
too are very excited to see progress made in this area!), but staff is not 
driving the process.

Separately, staff has an additional background document that does expand on 
some of the ideas and approaches already suggested in the list already 
distributed, we will be sharing this with the team shortly, but there is 
nothing official or "final" about this, I would suggest thinking of this new 
document as a expanded set of ideas and questions with few if any "answers".

I hope this helps explain the role of staff and next steps, at least from our 
perspective.  Jeff may have further thoughts in terms of the overall job to be 
done and the current activities of the team.

Thanks again for your enthusiasm and eagerness to make progress quickly.  We're 
totally with you on that!

Best, Liz

From: owner-gnso-ppsc-pdp@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-gnso-ppsc-pdp@xxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf Of Liz Williams
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 4:10 AM
To: Margie Milam
Cc: Gnso-ppsc-pdp@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [gnso-ppsc-pdp] Action Items From Thursday's Call and Updated 
Draft PDP-WT WORK PLAN

Margie

Thanks for the notes.  I have a conflicting Nominating Committee call at 14H00 
for several weeks.  Could we shift to one hour later as I really want to 
participate here?

Whilst the logistics of the work are important, much more important is getting 
the work actually done.  What proposals were made to start drafting the words 
for each of the four (or five) stages of the PDP; what work is being done on 
preparing a "term sheet" of key definitions.  Essentially what needs to happen 
is a complete revision of Annex A of the Bylaws that drives the GNSO PDP 
process.  This is what the Board will eventually sign off as the agreed new PDP 
process.

We have an extremely short time frame to get the work done and I don't want to 
have calls about discussing how to do the work when we should be writing and 
drafting and discussing content.

Are you responsible for starting that drafting effort?

Liz
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Liz Williams
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On 20 Mar 2009, at 20:18, Margie Milam wrote:



1.       Selection of the Chair.  The work team unanimously selected Jeff 
Neuman as the Chair.  For those of you that were unable to attend, we wanted to 
give you the opportunity to vote on the Chair.  Please reply to this email  by 
Wednesday of next week with your vote on whether Jeff Neuman should be selected 
as Chair of the PDP-WT.

2.       Updated Draft Work Plan.  We briefly discussed the draft Work Plan and 
made suggested changes.    These revisions are included in the attached 
document, which will also posted on the WIKI.   Please review the Draft Work 
Plan and provide your comments either on the email list or on our next call.

3.       Next Steps.   Please be prepared to discuss the logistics of how to 
proceed with the work, such as whether we should divide up in subgroups, and 
which issues we would like to address first.

4.       Doodle for Next Meeting.   We discussed holding our next call at the 
same time as the last call, or 14:00 UTC on Thursday April 2,  2009 (07:00 PDT, 
10:00 EDT, 11:00 Buenos Aires, 15:00 CET, 01:00 Melbourne next day).  I'll ask 
Glen to create a Doodle and circulate it to the group to determine if this time 
would work for most of the participants.