-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Hi Sam et al, Completely agree. With the Cross Community Working Party on ICANNs Corporate and Social Responsibility to Respect Human Rights (CCWP HR) we prepared a report in which we try to find answer and approaches to exactly this issue, which will be presented during ICANN54. I will share the report here as soon as it is ready. I of course also invite you all the the CCWP HR session on October 21st Wednesday morning at 9:00 for the session in Dublin. Best, Niels On 10/03/2015 05:39 PM, Sam Lanfranco wrote: > I appreciate the back and forth here with regard to ICANN and > human rights but I hope we do not lose sight of the core issue. > There is near total agreement that ICANN and its remit are not in > the business of addressing content issues on the Internet. Those > have to be addressed elsewhere depending on their nature, and the > contexts in which they exist > > There is however a void here, and it is the need for a more > explicit position by ICANN on what does and what doesn’t fall > within its remit with regard to human rights. We can make an > unending list of what ICANN should not do. That is the easy part. > The hard part is to look at what is within ICANN's remit and figure > out if there are areas where ICANN should consider the human rights > concerns associated with what it does. > > It may be the case that nothing ICANN does impacts on human rights. > I doubt that. But determining if and where ICANN impacts on human > rights through its policies and practices should be the outcome of > analysis. That task is different from making a list of areas where > ICANN should not be concerned. ICANN should have an answer to the > question: "What is ICANN’s role in Human Rights on the Internet?". > > It is not enough for ICANN to simply list where it shouldn’t be > involved. The focus should be on where it is involved via its > policies and practices. How well it handles human rights issues in > those areas where it has an impact will, in the end, be judged by > the wider Internet stakeholder community, and not by ICANN itself. > This will be easier for ICANN if it has declared what it sees as > its role in Human Rights, within the context of its remit, and as > determined by its policies and its practices. > > Sam L. Chair NPOC Policy Committee > > - -- Niels ten Oever Head of Digital Article 19 www.article19.org PGP fingerprint 8D9F C567 BEE4 A431 56C4 678B 08B5 A0F2 636D 68E9 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJWEAliAAoJEAi1oPJjbWjpMRkH/jGHfPwkHrshdzTk3iBopUxL c3Vj4BLQc1z4Ao9DrVZwqqZWy47nr8wljRWUkJ5svcKYJWtIvFagm9xsaH2tyYt+ aCTWKlUGSebdwi+brA+cce/CB7q44g1TZ6b/NpxGhS/tkMBgnmL2nP0Lr82KDWZF 7yaMOEGNT5hJawcH7hdmn+Tm/T55kyun6SsL368QoXkAzBZrdrN4sZ3QCYWyawVP i5X9P8JeuOSoJb/lU929cPPFa/8VRxHtkOZTP7bTnusxXfPYdOKNVZY3dJSlw14b jLD8tVSHWVgBCkCfgbsfppj8tHQ69N8veBy7fKtr5CPLnFdEM9sAK1x9Vvx9pXk= =N+Nv -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----