Policy Process Steering Committee

The Policy Process Steering Committee (PPSC) was established to review and recommend changes for the GNSO policy-making processes. The main goal of PPSC was to develop recommendations for the process changes required by the GNSO Improvements Report and acknowledged by the Board. The PPSC was terminated when the GNSO adopted the resolution 20110428-2 at its meeting held on 28 April 2011, although the Policy Development Process Work Team is still active.

The PPSC was also assigned with the task of combining the results into a proposal, consisting of suggested bylaws changes for PDP process and guidelines for the working groups. The PPSC also used to consider whether any of its activities that needed recommendations need to be addressed with the formation of a new special team.

Other duties assigned to the PPSC by the GNSO Council were to provide guidelines to shape proper interaction between GNSO volunteers and the [ICANN]] staff, as well as duties related to establishing GNSO-related drafting team guidelines.

PPSC Work Teams

The PPSC consisted of two teams, the Policy Development Process Work Team and the Working Group Work Team. The PDP-WT was tasked with developing a new policy development process, while the WG-WT was tasked with developing a new Working Group Model. The PPSC itself served as a coordinating body for these two teams.

Policy Development Process Work Team: Also known as the PDP-WT, this team was responsible for recommending changes to the Council and the community on the basis of an open community WG approach. It was responsible of reviewing the PDP in the Bylaws.

Working Group Work Team: Also known as the WG-WT, it was responsible mostly to provide the necessary recommendations related to the methods and processes that were involved in the new WG model. The WG-WT also had to provide suggestion for transition to the new model.

Membership

The PPSC was comprised of the following members:

• 1 representative from each constituency (did not need to be a GNSO Council member)
• GNSO council chair or vice chair
• 1 Nominating Committee appointee to the GNSO

Also included as appointed representatives/observers were liaisons from the GAC and ALAC.

Prior to being disbanded, the members of the PPSC were:

• Business Constituency: Mike Rodenbaugh, alternate: Zahid Jamil
• Intellectual Property Interests Constituency: J. Scott Evans (alternate Chair), alternate: Ute Decker
• ISP Constituency: Greg Ruth, alternate: Tony Harris
• Non-Commercial Users Constituency: Konstantinos Komaitis, alternate: Gabriel Piniero
• Registry Constituency: Jeff Neuman (Chair), alternate: Catherine Sigmar
• Registrar Constituency: Tim Ruiz, alternate: Tom Keller
• NCA: Avri Doria, alternate: Olga Cavalli
• GNSO Council (vice-)chair: Avri Doria, alternate: Chuck Gomes

• GAC liaison: Bertrand de la Chapelle
• ALAC liaison: Alan Greenberg, alternate: Cheryl Langdon-Orr.

Unless otherwise determined, the decision-making process used by the PPSC was to be made using a “full consensus of the members” process.

Generic Names Supporting Organization. Develops and recommends to the Board substantive policies relating to generic top-level domains and other responsibilities set forth in the Bylaws (ICANN Bylaws).

Policy Development Process

Governmental Advisory Committee. Considers and provides advice on the activities of ICANN as they relate to concerns of governments, particularly matters where there may be an interaction between ICANN's policies and various laws and international agreements or where they may affect public policy issues (ICANN Bylaws).

At-Large Advisory Committee. Considers and provides advice on the activities of ICANN related to the interests of individual Internet users (ICANN Bylaws). Not to be confused with the Non-Commercial Stakeholder Group.