<html><body><span style="font-family:Verdana; color:#000000; font-size:10pt;"><div>Steve,</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks to Philip for slogging through the proposed policy document. The two points made -- long and complex -- combine to create an even more difficult problem: it is hard for new people to feel comfortable. Making the process -- and ICANN, in general -- more accessible is a goal worth promoting.</div><div><br></div><div>Berard<br></div>
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Subject: [bc-gnso] Draft BC comment on Proposed New GNSO Policy<br>
Development Process<br>
From: Steve DelBianco <<a href="mailto:sdelbianco@netchoice.org">sdelbianco@netchoice.org</a>><br>
Date: Fri, March 25, 2011 2:48 pm<br>
To: "<a href="mailto:bc-GNSO@icann.org">bc-GNSO@icann.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:bc-GNSO@icann.org">bc-GNSO@icann.org</a>><br>
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</style> <![endif]--> <div><div><div>ICANN is now gathering public comment on the final report and recommendations by a work team focused on the Policy Development Process (PDP-WT)</div><div><br></div></div></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><div>Below is a draft for BC comments prepared by Philip Sheppard.</div></div></div></span></div></div></span><div><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; ">ICANN's Comment period closes 1-April, so today (25-March) begins an abbreviated 7-day review period for these abbreviated comments.</span></div></div></div></span></div></div></span><div><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; ">Please review and post your suggestions/edits as soon as possible. If there are no disagreements noted by 30-March, these comments will be adopted without a voting period, and posted to ICANN on 1-April.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; "><br></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri,sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; ">For topic background, see </span></font><a target="_blank" href="http://www.icann.org/en/public-comment/#gnso-pdp-final-report">http://www.icann.org/en/public-comment/#gnso-pdp-final-report</a> </div><div><br></div><div>Thanks again to Philip Sheppard for his brief but pointed review of a report that's over 100 pages long.</div></div></div></span></div></div></span><div><br></div><div>Thanks also to BC members who served on the PDP work team:</div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px; border:none; padding:0px;"><div>Marilyn Cade</div><div>Mike Rodenbaugh</div><div>John Berard</div></blockquote><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px; border:none; padding:0px;"><div><br></div></blockquote></div></div></span><div>----</div><div><br></div><div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-GB">DRAFT BC position on Policy Development Process (PDP) Work Team<o:p></o:p></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-GB">Proposed Final Report & Recommendations<o:p></o:p></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-GB">General Comments<o:p></o:p></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span lang="EN-GB">At 109 pages the report is thorough but overly long. <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span lang="EN-GB">It is a report of a team with recommendations but not yet a guide for prospective participants in a PDP.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>As noted in recommendation 3 this work needs to be turned into a short practical manual on the PDP without references to the working team or recommendation number ## or extraneous points of discussion. The start of such a document in section 5 is good but seems overly long at around 15 pages. A rigorous edit is required.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span lang="EN-GB">The flow charts are useful but overly complex. A simplified one for council initiated work only is needed. A flowchart showing timelines would be useful.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-GB">Comments on specific recommendations<o:p></o:p></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span lang="EN-GB">10 and 11. The BC is concerned that the “preliminary issues report” is being over engineered. This report is intended to be short and factual outlining the issue raised NOT solving it or adding opinion on its merit. Therefore an additional public comment period at this stage is both redundant and will waste time.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span lang="EN-GB">12. Whereas certain issues will indeed benefit from a workshop, making this a mandatory procedure is short sighted.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span lang="EN-GB">13. A possible impact analysis before a vote to start a PDP is an option that will be gamed by parties wishing to delay a new PDP. <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span lang="EN-GB">16. Codifying a practice to delay seems a dangerous precedent. If done the wording needs to be clear that this is not a cumulative right potentially delaying a decision to launch a PDP by six Council meetings.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span lang="EN-GB">Voting thresholds. There is a lot of discussion about Council voting thresholds. The BC recommends further changes to these should simplify not add complexity to an already overly complex structure. <o:p></o:p></span></div> </div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><div><div><br></div><div></div></div></div></div></span></div></div></span>
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