[gnso-ppsc-pdp] Follow-up on our last PDP call
Dear Jeff, dear all, Following our very interesting exchange, I tried to clarify the proposal I made during the call for the "preparation phase", centered around : - an initial, short, "Issue Paper", serving the educational purpose mentioned by Marilyn and others - a final "Staff Recommendation" on whether launching a PDP or not (deadline to be determined) - the possibility for the Council to extend the deadline for the staff recommendation or to request additional research. You'll find a proposed wording in the attached document. The format is a very rough proposal for revision of the early parts of Annex A (including a shortening of the paragraphs dealing with the three possible initiators). This is of course a personal contribution and just a very preliminary draft for comments (and destruction if needed :-) But the discussion was substantive enough to perhaps be somewhat formalized already. I adopted the terminology suggested in a previous mail (following our previous call), distinguishing within a general "Policy Process" several phases, the first one of them being "Preparation". But this is also up for comments of course. As a side remark, I noted during the call two important topics that will need to be addressed at some point : - whether what we're discussing is mostly related to what is currently called "consensus policies" only or should apply to any policy elaboration (in the later case, should there be different procedures according to the amplitude of the topic, or just different timescales/durations ?) - the importance of the educational part mentioned by Sofia, in order to facilitate inclusion and participation : this may not have to be included in the Bylaws (to avoid cluttering them and excessive formalization), but it could be helpful to establish in due time some explanatory guidelines and recommendations on how to introduce an issue in the ACs or the gNSO constituencies. On that later point, as mentioned during the call, the RFC 54384 written by Thomas Narten, the IETF liaison to the Board on "how to hold a successful Birds of a Feather" session is particularly interesting and I encourage you to have a look at it : http://www.rfc-archive.org/getrfc.php?rfc=5434&tag=Considerations-for-Having-a-Successful-Birds-of-a-Feather-(BOF)-Session<http://www.rfc-archive.org/getrfc.php?rfc=5434&tag=Considerations-for-Having-a-Successful-Birds-of-a-Feather-%28BOF%29-Session> I hope this helps our future work and the staff as well in preparing minutes. Best Bertrand -- ____________________ Bertrand de La Chapelle Délégué Spécial pour la Société de l'Information / Special Envoy for the Information Society Ministère des Affaires Etrangères et Européennes/ French Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs Tel : +33 (0)6 11 88 33 32 "Le plus beau métier des hommes, c'est d'unir les hommes" Antoine de Saint Exupéry ("there is no greater mission for humans than uniting humans") Attachment:
Draft Policy Process - Preparation phase.doc
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