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

[Liz Williams <lizawilliams@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Bertrand

I support the general direction you're trying to take and we could do  
with some staff writing to see if that could be fleshed out.  Early  
and quite comprehensive pre-PDP consultation is very necessary to  
seek out as much consensus (about examining an issue) as possible and  
then consensus about how to tackle it (a policy and therefore  
contract matter or an advisory paper) and then consensus about who  
works on it in what way over what time scale.
The pre-PDP phase can easily be formalised into a Narten/IETF BOF  
like-session to ensure that there is good consultation about an issue  
to flesh out the right question which needs to be answered.  Where  
there is violent disagreement (like in the case of WHOIS) one can  
probably assume that the issue needs airing through a formal policy  
development exercise.  Where there's disinterest from most and  
agitation by only a few it most likely warrants an advisory paper.
Best wishes.

Liz
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Liz Williams
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On 16 Apr 2009, at 16:17, Bertrand de La Chapelle wrote:

> 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
> 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")
> <Draft Policy Process - Preparation phase.doc>