Board Readiness Small Team
The ICANN's GNSO Board Readiness Small Team had the mission to perform a study that would inform the improvement or creation of policy development practices that would improve the ICANN Board readiness of GNSO policy recommendations. Board readiness is measured by the likelihood that GNSO policy recommendations will be readily adopted by the Board.[1]
Background[edit | edit source]
During the 2023 GNSO Council Strategic Planning Session (SPS), the GNSO Council agreed that it should seek to limit the likelihood of the Council approving PDP recommendations that the ICANN Board is ultimately unable to adopt. To that end, the Council discussed the desire to ensure it submits “board-ready policy recommendations” to the Board, to the extent possible.
A policy recommendation can be considered board ready generally when the recommendation is likely to achieve board adoption, i.e., the recommendation has been approved by a GNSO Supermajority Vote and will most likely be considered by the Board to be in the best interests of ICANN Community and ICANN organization.
In an effort to assist the GNSO Council with this topic, Support Staff prepared a document on Board Readiness, which endeavors to define board readiness, provide examples of the parts of the PDP continuum contribute to Board readiness, and provide examples of existing or new efforts within the GNSO that support and reinforce Board readiness.[2]
Tasks[edit | edit source]
The Small Team was tasked to:
- develop a survey/questionnaire related to the Board’s rejection/non-adoption of policy recommendations, which may be administered to relevant PDP Chairs, PDP working group members, ICANN org Support Staff, and Board members;
- administer the survey/questionnaire and conduct interviews with relevant PDP Chairs, PDP WG members, ICANN org Support Staff, and Board members; and
- synthesize the findings from the survey/questionnaire and interviews into a set of findings and develop a set of recommendations intended to inform Council work on improving Board readiness.[2]
Team Members[edit | edit source]
References[edit | edit source]
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