What It Is | This is an information and consultation session on the Initial Report on the new GNSO Policy Development Process.

Who Should Attend? | Anyone interested in GNSO Policy Development.

Why It's Important | The GNSO Policy Development Process Work Team team was tasked to develop recommendations for a new GNSO policy development process (PDP)). ICANN’s policies have wide-ranging impact on how domain names are handled in the gTLD environment, so the method of developing the policies matters. The Work team has considered questions such as: who has the right to introduce a new issue into the PDP; how much background data should participants have before deciding policy; and, what are the possible outcomes of a PDP? The PDP-WT will present its Initial Report, containing amongst others forty-five (45) draft Recommendations and a flow chart that is intended to serve as the basis for the new Annex A of the ICANN by-laws, for Community feedback and discussion.