•  Accept As-Is
•  Accept With modification
•  Reject

Rationale:

MK: accept with modification. From my perspective, it should be the other way around - that ICANN's Strategic Objectives should factor in future policy development activities to ensure there is alignment between the Strategic Objectives and the GNSO resources available for policy development. This could be achieved by requiring/soliciting GNSO Council confirmation that the Strategic Objectives align with future policy development activities.

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Paul Diaz

gTLD Registries Stakeholder Group

(Support) What would doing this mean? The Strategic Objectives are at a very high level while policy development tends to be at a very low, almost operational level. It seems like a good idea to regularly confirm that policy development efforts are in alignment with the strategic plan, or at least not inconsistent with strategic objectives. The GNSO Council’s role is more tactical than strategic. That doesn’t mean that strategic thinking shouldn’t be applied.

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Osvaldo Novoa

ISPCP

(Support) Prioritisation of work remains an issue for the GNSO and requires careful consideration by Council. It is essential selected priorities align with ICANNs strategic objectives. This has not always been the case and requires more attention by Council at the appropriate stage of the Strategic Planning cycle. However it is also accepted that sometimes work within the GNSO will be event driven in order to meet the communities requirements.

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Will Hudson

Google

To align the GNSO’s policy development work with ICANN’s strategic objectives, improved prioritization by the GNSO Council is important to making the best use of community volunteers.

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Laura Covington, J. Scott Evans, Marie Pattullo

Business Constituency

While having no issue with this recommendation, we should also remember that part of the GNSO’s job is to identify and react to new issues/propose solutions to new problems as they become apparent.

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Stephanie Perrin

NCUC/NCSG

What is required is a gap analysis, not striking a balance. 

We need to be able to assess how mature the policy is within areas that are on the ICANN strategic objectives, then we will know how much work will be required by the GNSO.  The strategic objectives then need to be aligned with a realistic assessment of how fast the work can be done.

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Greg Shatan

IPC

(It Depends) ICANN’s Strategic Objectives are not all within the purview of GNSO policy making, and may not appropriately reflect the community’s policy development needs. We consider it more important that ICANN, in formulating its Strategic Objectives, aligns them with the GNSO’s (and other SOs’) policy development priorities.

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Amr Elsadr

I have no objection to the GNSO Council reviewing ICANN’s strategic objectives on an annual basis, however, ultimately, the Council should maintain a healthy level of flexibility regarding policy development projects. PDPs are initiated by requests for issue reports that are submitted by GNSO Councillors on behalf of their stakeholder groups/constituencies, by the ALAC or by the ICANN board. Alignment of GNSO activities with ICANN strategic goals should not be strictly required, and not always desirable.

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Olivier Crepin-Leblond

ALAC

(Support) The ALAC supports this recommendation with the following concern: In order to reduce the influence from some stakeholders that have vested interests, the policy development prioritization must be made while keeping  the Public Interest in mind. Strict adherence to ICANN’s Strategic Objectives is needed, particularly due to the fact that to "develop and implement a global public interest framework bounded by ICANN's mission" is one of ICANN's Strategic Objectives.