Thanks for taking the lead on this, Farzaneh!
Julf
On 26/05/2024 04:02, farzaneh badii wrote:
> Hello all,
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> Short version of this email: the CPH for its next outreach session has
> decided to allocate 20 minutes to NCSG to provide its reflections on how
> to go about doing Human Rights Impact Assessment (something we asked
> for) in terms of the DNS abuse contractual amendments. I am going to set
> up a document and we can start working on the slides and a brief, also
> will ask Ephraim who led the human rights group at ICANN for a long time
> to work with us on this.
> /*Long version of this email: */
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> /Since we have a few new members, here is an intro: I am the liaison on
> DNS abuse for NCSG to the Contracted Party House- domain name registries
> and registrars. NCSG is the mothership of NCUC and NPOC, when you join
> NCUC or NPOC you automatically join NCSG. But you can also be a member
> of NCSG and not choose a constituency- we are a part of a larger House
> which is called Non-Contracted Party House because we don't have a
> contract with ICANN- we share the House with the Commercial Stakeholder
> Group which has its own constituencies). We usually do our policy work
> through NCSG and through the council./
> /
> /
> A few months ago, CPH started doing more structured outreach with other
> community members because they negotiated (bilaterally and not through
> the multistakeholder model) contractual amendments with ICANN on DNS
> Abuse. Read about the changes and the advisory here
> <https://itp.cdn.icann.org/en/files/registry-agreement/draft-icann-advisory-dns-abuse-amendments-25-05-2023-en.pdf>.
>
> We (NCSG members and CPH) had our first meeting with them in January
> on DNS Abuse. Read Kathy's comprehensive notes on this
> <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hfCHp9bFE9UiDva6fqS25Q0G0vnOOQoV3o2iGytC_Sc/edit>. We also had a very interesting conversation in San Juan (CPH usually holds DNS abuse outreach sessions in ICANN meetings). I attended on behalf of NCSG and we mentioned a few of our concerns and we asked specifically for a human rights impact assessment and qualitative measures to define the success of these amendments. See the video of the session here. <https://icann.zoom.us/rec/play/RyTv5okTUIFt3uNCVrIn93E3D-C_VaB45RVUyY77s02a1YSvXCMW1o5VvoEsBTHjThsuDW2SszSM0ySn.aKpW4ik1hxrd5jkj?canPlayFromShare=true&from=share_recording_detail&startTime=1709496981000&componentName=rec-play&originRequestUrl=https%3A%2F%2Ficann.zoom.us%2Frec%2Fshare%2FQe0baDSB6oSxetyNM-8GkC_EvcPylQpAWPFM30QcOCDzLIAzg8vxPCgKmUwRQbf_.y63wnZJWkOLRCNrS%3FstartTime%3D1709496981000>
>
> For the Kigali meeting the CPH has asked NCSG (us) to present what HRIA
> is and how should it be done. Our next step is to come up with a few
> slides and a brief and explain to them what it is (we will have 20
> minutes). I will set up the document.
>
> Best regards,
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>
>
> Farzaneh
