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

[Bertrand de La Chapelle <bdelachapelle@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Liz,

Thanks for the comments. I was trying to join the conference call from
Lisbon where I attend the ITU WTPF. But I gave a wrong number to Glen and
the call was over when the mistake was corrected. Apologies to the group,

I noted that we keep this time in the coming weeks and will come back to Liz
remarks beggining of next week.

Best

Bertrand


On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Liz Williams <lizawilliams@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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
>  ...
>
> Liz Williams
> +44 1963 364 380
> +44 7824 877 757
>
>
>
>   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<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")
> <Draft Policy Process - Preparation phase.doc>
>
>
>


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____________________
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")