Hi Amr, In one of the excellent session that you and Avri gave to discuss this Initial Report, an issue came up that the scope of the Expedited Policy Development Process -- that allowing the GNSO to revisit any policy issue at any time (even if the initial proceeding just finished and was a very hard-fought compromise) might be too broad. That we should save Expedited Policy Development processes for areas *not considered* in the initial policy development process -- perhaps something now deemed critical for implementation, but not even conceived (or focused on) in the initial process. The example we used was the "Brand Registries" seeking a change to the Applicant Guidebook and the "base registry agreement" set out in the Applicant Guidebook -- a new wrinkle and one that did need to be treated rapidly as Applications were in and processing rapidly... The PDF seems to be cut off on this issue (I know you are cutting and pasting from an online form - which we appreciate!). Could you kindly address who you phrased the revised response from the SG on this issue? It would be very difficult to continue to re-fight battles again and again... and it would be nice to have a substantive limitation (a clear bar or a very high bar to reconsideration of debated and "closed" policy matters) in addition to a procedural one (a vote of Council). Best and tx! Kathy > Hi, > > I’ve attached an updated version of the NCSG response to the public > comment period for the Policy and Implementation WG initial report to > this email. In it, I’ve tried to consolidate the excellent feedback > provided from last week’s NCSG webinar. > > There is some text that can’t be read on page 4 of the document, so > I’m adding it here. You can only find it if you save the whole > document as free text. This text is particularly important because it > includes a somewhat contentious issue we discussed last Tuesday. > >> 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. > > For clarification, we had agreed to include input addressing this > issue in the “Principles” section of the report. I was, at the time, > in agreement on this. However, on review of the report, I found this > difficult to do considering that the principles are very general in > their nature, and do not specifically address any of the new processes > being suggested by the WG. I hope the language I added addresses this > in a satisfactory manner, but please let me know if there are any > thoughts to the contrary. > > Thanks. > > Amr > > > > > > > On Mar 6, 2015, at 1:03 PM, Maryam Bakoshi <[log in to unmask] > <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote: > >> Dear All, >> >> Please find below participation details for the NCSG Webinar on the >> Initial Report of the GNSO Policy and Implementation Working Group >> call on *Tuesday 10th March at 19:00 UTC*. >> >> *Adobe Connect: *https://icann.adobeconnect.com/_a819976787/ncsg/ >> >> *Time Zones:* >> http://www.worldtimebuddy.com/?qm=1&lid=100,8,5&h=100&date=2015-3-10&sln=19-21 >> >> *Public Comment link:* >> https://www.icann.org/public-comments/policy-implementation-2015-01-19-en >> >> *Draft Response: *Attached >> >> *Passcodes/Pin codes:* >> Participant passcode: NCSG PC >> >> *For security reasons, the passcode will be required to join the >> conference.* >> >> >> *Dial in numbers:* >> *Country* >> >> >> >> *Toll 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