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The challenge is now to decide on what mechanisms to use to make these decisions which do not exclude the bottom-up process, but at the same time do not result in interminable delays. Although the GNSO must be a part of the decision process, it chose not to include them in the PDP, and thus waived its exclusive right to decide on them. The ALAC has no prescription for how to do this at the moment, but can offer some principles which should guide the process:

• Any decision which There must be a methodology to recognize when a decision will impacts the community, and such decisions must involve a bottom-up process to address in addressing those decisions;
• The processes must be designed to be time-sensitive – unending debate should not be an option; and
• There must be a way to come to closure when the community is divided, and this should not simply give executive powers to ICANN Staff.

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