Terminology
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BGC WG: ICANN Board Governance Committee Working group on GNSO Improvements
Drafting Team: A small ad hoc group created by the council for the purpose of developing a proposed document for discussion. The types of document can include i.a., a PDP charter, a motion in response to a PDP deliberative process, a letter addressed to another organization, a request or report to the Board or an ICANN senior staff member, a standard council motion. Drafting teams should include at least 2 council members as well as other members of the community. The council members of the drafting team will be responsible for maintaining liaison with the council. In most cases, the output of the Drafting Team serves as a recommendation to the council and a starting place for a discussions and does not constitute an official position of the Council.
PDP: Procedures for the Policy Development Process as defined in Bylaws Article X Section 6. These are the procedures in effect until PDPbis has been adopted by the GNSO council and approved by the ICANN Board of Directors.
PDPbis: Policy Development Process as defined in response the BGC WG
Planning Team: Group formed to initiate the process for making the changes recommend by BGC WG
Steering Committee (SC): A long term, small, group formed to develop process and working method recommendations for the approval of the GNSO council. Steering Committees are generally responsibility for forming and coordinating SC Teams for specific topics
Task Force: A group of the GNSO council that is defined in the current PDP process
Transition: The process of transforming the GNSO and the GNSO council based on the BCG WG recommendations
Team: Group of individuals tasked by a Steering Committee with developing specific proposals. The work of Teams will be coordinated by the Steering Committees and their output will be brought back to the Steering Committee
Working Group (WG): An ICANN community based group as used in the BGC WG formed in response to a Policy Development Process charter developed and approved by the GNSO Council
"Improvements": A reference to the changes to be made in the GNSO in response to the BGC WG recommendations. The word Improvements is in quotes to remind those involved in the process that whether the changes constitute an actual improvement is something that remains to be seen and will only be available to assessment several years after the transition.