2020-07-23 EPDP- Phase 2 call #74

PROPOSED AGENDA

Thursday 23 July 2020 at 14.00 UTC

1. Roll Call & SOI Updates (5 minutes)

2. Confirmation of agenda (Chair)

3. Welcome and housekeeping issues (Chair) (5 minutes)

  a. Expected approach for consensus designation and timeline:

From the GNSO Working Group Guidelines:

The recommended method for discovering the consensus level designation on recommendations should work as follows: 

     i. After the group has discussed an issue long enough for all issues to have been raised, understood and discussed, the Chair, or Co-Chairs, make an evaluation of the designation and publish it for the group to review. 

    ii. After the group has discussed the Chair's estimation of designation, the Chair, or Co-Chairs, should reevaluate and publish an updated evaluation. 

   iii. Steps (i) and (ii) should continue until the Chair/Co-Chairs make an evaluation that is accepted by the group. 

   iv. In rare case, a Chair may decide that the use of polls is reasonable. Some of the reasons for this might be:

o A decision needs to be made within a time frame that does not allow for the natural process of iteration and settling on a designation to occur. 

o It becomes obvious after several iterations that it is impossible to arrive at a designation. This will happen most often when trying to discriminate between Consensus and Strong support but Significant Opposition or between Strong support but Significant Opposition and Divergence. 

            Modified timeline:

1. 22 – 26 July – continuation of online dialogue on category 2 items
2. 27 July – confirmation in google doc of proposed agreements on category 2 items by staff support team – by 28 July groups to confirm if they cannot live with the proposed agreements (if cannot live, proposed agreements will NOT be applied)
3. 23 24 July: distribution of Final Report and consensus designations. As a reminder, the Chair will make an evaluation of the support achieved for the recommendations and publish its designation for the group to review. 
4. 243 - 27 29 July: opportunity for EPDP Team to respond to consensus designations, review by Chair of input received, if any, confirmation by Chair of designation. 
5. 27 29 July: deadline for minority statements.
6. 31 July: No later than date for submission of Final Report to the GNSO Council

4. Finalization of review of cannot live with items:

    a. Priority 2 related items

• Item #1
• Item #37-41

    b. Any further items flagged after review of proposed approach for cannot live with items documented in google doc [docs.google.com]following 21/22 calls or following review of updated rec #8 language [docs.google.com]

    c. Category 2 items (groups to prioritize which items they would like to flag / discuss)

• Item #95
• Item #101

5. Wrap and confirm next steps (5 minutes):

BACKGROUND DOCUMENTS

Please note Support Staff is uploading discussion item documents as they are created. You can find the documents, including the previously-circulated discussion items here: Public Comment Review Tool & Discussion Drafts.

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