High Interest Session: Community Input to GNSO Expedited PDP Charter Development

The GNSO Council has formed a drafting team to develop an Initiation Request for an Expedited Policy Development Process (EPDP) including a proposed EPDP Team Charter in order to respond to the ICANN Board’s adoption of the Temporary Specification for gTLD Registration Data. The session will provide an opportunity for the community to engage with the GNSO Council to understand the EPDP initiation and chartering process, and is primarily intended to provide the community with an opportunity to provide input that will help inform the subsequent deliberations of the drafting team, which are aimed at finalizing the EPDP Initiation Request as well as EPDP Team Charter for GNSO Council consideration. Key topics under discussion will be: * Composition of EPDP Team / Membership Criteria * EPDP Team Leadership * EPDP Scope (mission, purposes, objectives, goals, deliverables, timeframes): * EPDP Decision-making methodologies: * EPDP Status reporting: * Problem/Issue Escalation & Resolution Processes **Background** On 17 May 2018, the ICANN Board approved the Temporary Specification for [gTLD Registration Data] (https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/gtld-registration-data-specs-en). The ICANN Board took this action to establish temporary requirements for how ICANN and its contracted parties will continue to comply with existing ICANN contractual requirements and with community-developed policies as they relate to WHOIS, while also complying with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The Temporary Specification has been adopted under the procedure for Temporary Policies outlined in the Registry Agreement and Registrar Accreditation Agreement, which requires that following adoption of the temporary specification, the Board “shall immediately implement the Consensus Policy development process set forth in ICANN’s Bylaws”. Per the requirements of the procedure for Temporary Policies, this Consensus Policy development process on the temporary specification would need to be carried out within a one-year period. Following the adoption of the Temporary Specification, the ICANN Board consulted with the GNSO Council about the expected scope of the PDP, timing considerations, and relevant procedural requirements. Similarly, as the manager of the Policy Development Process, the GNSO Council started considering possible next steps through a number of meetings as well as briefing documents (see [https://community.icann.org/x/iwE5BQ](https://community.icann.org/x/iwE5BQ) for example). - Session Leader: Ria Otanes