Furthermore, A GGP is not intended to be used when the expected outcome may result in new 

contractual obligations to contracted parties. Similarly, the NCSG feels it is important that the 

prerequisites for not using a GGP explicitly include that there will also be no new obligations 

(contractual or otherwise) on registrants. Examples of obligations on registrants that may not require changes made to contracts between ICANN and registries or registrars include changes to the UDRP or URS. Such changes should be made using another process, preferably a traditional PDP.

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.

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

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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

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Dear All,

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