Support of the GNSO Expedited Policy Development Process (EPDP) is provisional to the same
change in voting threshold being required for initiation of the process as the GGP, and for the same reasons. Additionally, Annex E #4 of the report states that "At the request of any Council member duly and timely submitted and seconded as a motion, the Council may initiate the EPDP by a Supermajority vote of the Council in favor of initiating the EPDP. A motion which fails to carry a Supermajority vote of Council may be resubmitted at the same Council meeting as a motion to
initiate a GNSO Guidance Process". In the event that a vote confirming the initiation of an EPDP
fails, it would be necessary for the voting threshold required to initiate a GGP be a supermajority
vote in favor, also for the reasons mentioned above.
Furthermore, the NCSG believes that an EPDP should not be used to reopen a policy that had
previously been deliberated upon, and rejected. To reconvene a discussion on a previously rejected policy, an issue scoping phase of a PDP (not included in the EPDP) should be included to scope the policy issue in order to determine wether or not there are new circumstances that have been recognized that require that a policy issue be revisited and reversed. This additional criteria for applicability does not conflict with those already being recommended in Annex E of the report.