[Gnso-epdp-team] SSAC comments regarding schedule and workstreams

[Greg Aaron]

SSAC believes the schedule should take less time than proposed, and supports
the two-stream approach.

 

We believe that the ePDP is the highest priority in the community, and
deserving of attendant resourcing.  Parties participated in Phase 1 under a
common commitment and assumption that work would continue with similar
urgency in Phase 2.   Phase 1 took eight months to go from initiation
(approved 19 July 2018) to publication of a Final Report (20 Feb 2019).  The
proposed Phase 2 schedule will take twelve months.  While such a schedule is
aggressive, we believe an expedited schedule is needed in order to maintain
progress, and are not convinced that Phase 2 contains so much more work than
Phase 1 did.

 

We propose that the target for the Initial Report be late November, as it
was for Phase 1. This will allow the required thirty-day public comment
period to end before the December holidays, as it did in Phase 1.  The
proposal for Phase 2 seems to include a sixty-day public comment running
from the beginning of December to the end of January.  Sixty days is
excessive, even if it stretches over the holiday season.  

 

The revision of the Phase 2 Initial Report is proposed to last three months.
Revision of the Phase 1 report took just thirty normal days (Phase 1 went
forty days, ten of which was dead time at the late December holidays).  We
believe that the target for the Phase 2 Final Report can be in advance of
ICANN67 in March 2019, giving the Council time to consider the
recommendations and vote on them at or before ICANN67.

 

We believe that the above is aggressive but workable because:

1.	The current proposal is for only one ePDP call in some weeks.  There
should be two meetings every week; that will be in keeping with the
commitment to make substantive, expedited progress.  
2.	SSAC supports the two-stream approach.  We do not see complicated
dependencies between the two.  For example, the legal-versus-natural
conversation does not determine the overall shape of a standardized model
for lawful disclosure.
3.	Work will take place offline between meetings.  
4.	We are happy to participate in 2-hour calls, rather than the
1.5-hour calls that have taken place so far.

 

There needs to be a proposed schedule for weekly workstream 2 meetings.  

 

 

 

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