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
>
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