100% in agreement with Sam.

On Wednesday, August 3, 2016, Seun Ojedeji <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Well said Sam, and I agree 100% with your last two paragraphs. WS2 has
commenced and I urge you to re-echo this within the group that will discuss
this topic early enough.
>
> The earlier we get a clear direction on some of these issues the more we
save on legal hours.
>
> Regards
>
> Sent from my LG G4
> Kindly excuse brevity and typos
>
> On 3 Aug 2016 8:27 p.m., "Sam Lanfranco" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> I have stayed relatively quiet in the ICANN and Human Rights (HR)
discussion. I will make my position known here, in very brief language, not
so much as to record my position but to bring some perspective to the
possible way forward.
>>
>> ICANN is a not-for-profit entity pledged to operate in the public
interest. It goes without saying that this includes respect for Human
Rights, but it may be worth having ICANN say it on the record, but leave it
to others to judge ICANN’s record with regard to Human Rights.
>>
>> What do I mean by that? What do I suggest? My thinking is that ICANN can
pledge to consider the Human Rights aspects of all of its DNS Internet
governance policies and implementation, but (BIG BUT) ICANN stops short of
incorporating anything like a Human Rights check list, a Human Rights score
card, or internal ICANN human rights performance monitoring, as it pursues
policy development. Leave that to constituencies as they struggle within
the multistakeholder policy development process, and leave the assessments
of ICANN’s record to outside third parties for whom Human Rights are
central to their own mission, vision and remit.
>>
>> Why do I suggest this split between an ICANN pledge and outside
monitoring? There is a legitimate fear that internalizing the monitoring
process would malfunction at several levels. It could become unwieldy, it
could become time consuming, it could become self-serving, and it could
become a venue for proxy fights around other issues. Let ICANN and its
multistakeholder policy making process, and its organizational
implementation processes, be open and transparent, and let’s hold ICANN
accountable on the Human Rights front by assessing it from outside ICANN.
>>
>> This should not be a struggle over whether Human Rights are in or out of
ICANN.
>>
>> Sam L.  NPOC/CSIH
>>
>> --
>> ------------------------------------------------
>> "It is a disgrace to be rich and honoured
>> in an unjust state" -Confucius
>>  邦有道，贫且贱焉，耻也。邦无道，富且贵焉，耻也
>> ------------------------------------------------
>> Dr Sam Lanfranco (Prof Emeritus & Senior Scholar)
>> Econ, York U., Toronto, Ontario, CANADA - M3J 1P3
>> email: [log in to unmask]   Skype: slanfranco
>> blog:  http://samlanfranco.blogspot.com
>> Phone: +1 613-476-0429 cell: +1 416-816-2852
>

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