<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>I do agree, Steve.</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Thomas<br><br><div><span style="font-size: 13pt;">---</span></div><div><a href="http://rickert.net">rickert.net</a></div><div><br></div></div><div><br>Am 28.04.2016 um 15:55 schrieb Steve Crocker <<a href="mailto:steve@shinkuro.com">steve@shinkuro.com</a>>:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>Speaking for myself, without benefit of coordination with my colleagues on the ICANN Board or with staff, my quick reaction is a PDP is not a substitute for a review. I do believe we have to find a way to be more efficient and coordinated when we have multiple interacting processes, and collection of whois and directory services activities is probably the premier example at the moment. We don’t have a solution at the moment, but I don’t think equating a PDP with a review is the right approach. In principle, reviews start from a neutral position and assess the situation. In contrast, policy development processes start with the premise that a policy is needed and the bulk of the activity during a PDP is the creation and shaping of that policy. Reviews can lead to PDPs, but they’re not interchangeable.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Steve</span><br><span></span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>On Apr 28, 2016, at 9:12 AM, Andrew Sullivan <<a href="mailto:ajs@anvilwalrusden.com">ajs@anvilwalrusden.com</a>> wrote:</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Hi,</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>In thinking about the way the bylaws require the regular RTs and how</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>those might interact with other processes, I'm wondering whether we</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>think it would be consistent with the report to say that, if a PDP is</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>going on about any topic that is subject to regular RT, then the PDP</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>can be counted as fulfilling the purposes of the RT?</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>It seems to me that this is consistent with the point of the regular</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>RT requirement (i.e. ensuring that the review happens in a timely way)</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>without entailing that we waste time, money, and energy in multiple,</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>potentially conflicting efforts on the same topic.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Have I missed something?</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Best regards,</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>A</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>-- </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Andrew Sullivan</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span><a href="mailto:ajs@anvilwalrusden.com">ajs@anvilwalrusden.com</a></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>_______________________________________________</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Accountability-Cross-Community mailing list</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span><a href="mailto:Accountability-Cross-Community@icann.org">Accountability-Cross-Community@icann.org</a></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span><a href="https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/accountability-cross-community">https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/accountability-cross-community</a></span><br></blockquote><span></span><br><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>Accountability-Cross-Community mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:Accountability-Cross-Community@icann.org">Accountability-Cross-Community@icann.org</a></span><br><span><a href="https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/accountability-cross-community">https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/accountability-cross-community</a></span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>