<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Hi,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">For details on the NCSG Policy Committee’s composition, duties, decision-making method, etc…, you may want to check out section 2.5 of the NCSG charter: <a href="https://community.icann.org/display/gnsononcomstake/Charter" class="">https://community.icann.org/display/gnsononcomstake/Charter</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The PC’s email archives can be found here: <a href="http://mailman.ipjustice.org/pipermail/pc-ncsg/" class="">http://mailman.ipjustice.org/pipermail/pc-ncsg/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Amr</div><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jun 14, 2016, at 1:55 AM, Ayden Férdeline <<a href="mailto:icann@FERDELINE.COM" class="">icann@FERDELINE.COM</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><table class="container" lang="container" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" valign="top" style="font-family: TrebuchetMS; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; width: 622px; margin-top: 6px;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td valign="top" class="message-wrapper" style="padding-top: 6px; line-height: 1.31; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><div class="">As is probably apparent, I have largely been off email for the past 10 days and am only just catching up on missed messages. So I apologise for the scattered and untimely response as I bring some order back to my overflowing inbox.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">To add to James' comments, my understanding is that the NCSG Policy Committee tries to keep to the following schedule. I'm not sure it was formally adopted, but as a rough internal operating procedure, it does outline how positions are drafted, edited, reviewed, and ultimately either approved or rejected:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://mailman.ipjustice.org/pipermail/pc-ncsg/2015-December/003349.html" style="word-wrap: normal; word-break: break-word;" class="">http://mailman.ipjustice.org/pipermail/pc-ncsg/2015-December/003349.html</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Ayden</div><div class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 2:30 AM, Shane Kerr<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span dir="ltr" class=""><a href="mailto:shane@TIME-TRAVELLERS.ORG" target="_blank" style="word-wrap: normal; word-break: break-word;" class="">shane@TIME-TRAVELLERS.ORG</a></span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex;"><u class=""></u><p class="">All,</p><p class=""><br class=""></p><p class="">At 2016-06-07 14:07:25 +0200</p><p class="">Niels ten Oever <<a href="mailto:lists@DIGITALDISSIDENTS.ORG" class="">lists@DIGITALDISSIDENTS.ORG</a>> wrote:</p><p class=""><br class=""></p><p class="">> On 06/03/2016 08:13 PM, Ayden Férdeline wrote:</p><p class="">> > I tried responding on the pad, but it will not save my comments.</p><p class="">> ></p><p class="">> > I don't have a hard objection to the NCSG responding to this</p><p class="">> > consultation – indeed, I believe we should be submitting responses</p><p class="">> > whenever we are given the opportunity – but the drafted response is not</p><p class="">> > one that I can support.</p><p class=""><br class=""></p><p class="">I think that I have a process question.</p><p class=""><br class=""></p><p class="">What is the NCSG way for getting approval to send an NCSG response? I</p><p class="">know how RIPE and the IETF and the NRO do such things, but I don't know</p><p class="">how the NCSG declares a decision.</p><p class=""><br class=""></p><p class="">For example, in RIPE it is the job of the working group chair to</p><p class="">declare consensus, and there is an oversight and appeals process</p><p class="">defined. In the IETF it is roughly similar, although the details are</p><p class="">vastly different. In the NRO, each of the heads of the RIRs must agree</p><p class="">to any statement made by the NRO.</p><p class=""><br class=""></p><p class="">I ask because I think that this seems to be an area where consensus</p><p class="">will be very hard to achieve.</p><p class=""><br class=""></p><p class="">--------</p><p class=""><br class=""></p><p class="">One possible way forward may be to have an NCSG “official response” -</p><p class="">which would be a sort of vague, watered-down response that a politician</p><p class="">would have. “We find this very important, blah blah blah.” Some members</p><p class="">of the NCSG could also make a “minority response” which goes further.</p><p class="">“We think that ICANN should do X, Y, and Z.”</p><p class=""><br class=""></p><p class="">Personally I am happy to add my support to the strongest position</p><p class="">possible against harassment, without regard to cultural or other</p><p class="">sensitivities.</p><p class=""><br class=""></p><p class="">Cheers,</p><p class=""><br class=""></p><p class="">--</p><p class="">Shane</p><p class=""><br class=""></p></blockquote></div></div></div><div class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="mixmax_signature"><div class="">Ayden Férdeline</div><div class=""><a href="https://community.icann.org/display/gnsosoi/Ayden+F%C3%A9rdeline+SOI" style="word-wrap: normal; word-break: break-word; background-color: white;" class="">Statement of Interest</a></div></div><img align="left" width="0" height="0" src="https://app.mixmax.com/api/track/v2/peGI9bZrMaJKOzhBq/i02bj5SZulGblRmclZGQu5WYjlmI/gI1RWZuIXez5idyV2c0NXasB0UTV1QTlERtc0UD5kI/?sc=false" alt="" style="border: 0px; width: 0px; height: 0px;" class=""></td></tr></tbody></table></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>