[gnso-ppsc-pdp] RE: Follow-up on our last PDP call

["Neuman, Jeff" <Jeff.Neuman@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for this!  I was just going to send you an e-mail asking for the docs 
you were referencing.  

 

 

 

Jeffrey J. Neuman, Esq.: NeuStar, Inc.
Vice President, Law & Policy 



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From: Bertrand de La Chapelle [mailto:bdelachapelle@xxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2009 11:18 AM
To: Neuman, Jeff; gnso-ppsc-pdp@xxxxxxxxx; Glen de Saint Géry; Margie Milam; 
Liz Gasster
Subject: 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

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