[gnso-ppsc-pdp] GNSO - and policy related to GTLDs

[Avri Doria <avri@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I am wondering whether there is an issue for the PDP work team in the following.

In the Staff report on Issues Report on Vertical Integration Between Registries 
and Registrars
> Page 17 of 38
> Author: Margie Milam


>From http://gnso.icann.org/issues/vertical-integration/report-04dec09-en.pdf


> The NCUC suggests that all policies adopted by ICANN affecting gTLDs must be 
> approved by the GNSO. However, while the ICANN Bylaws grant the GNSO the 
> right to recommend policies affecting gTLDs, such right is not exclusive, and 
> policies may be recommended under the Bylaws by any of the advisory 
> committees (34), including the GAC, ALAC, and SSAC. An example of a recent 
> policy affecting gTLDs that was not recommended by the GNSO, is the policy to 
> prohibit redirection and synthesized DNS responses by TLDs adopted by the 
> ICANN Board on 26 June 200935, resulting entirely from an SSAC 
> recommendation. Since the GNSO’s approval is not required, resolving the 
> vertical integration issue through the implementation processes that are 
> currently underway instead of through a PDP would be consistent with the 
> ICANN Bylaws.

Footnote 34

> 34 For example, Bylaws Article XI Section 2.2(a) Section 6 relating to the 
> SSAC states that the SSAC’s responsibilities shall include: “to make policy 
> recommendations to the ICANN community and Board.” Bylaws Article XI Section 
> 2.1(i) relating the GAC states that the GAC “may put issues to the Board 
> directly, either by way of comment or prior advice, or by way of specifically 
> recommending action or new policy development or revision to existing 
> policies.”