Situating Human Rights within ICANN, and ICANN within Human Rights

[Olévié Kouami]

+1 @Sam.
+1 @Seun.
The quicker de réaction the more it'll be great.
Le 3 août 2016 21:58, "Wisdom Donkor" <wisdom.dk at gmail.com> a écrit :

> 100% in agreement with Sam.
>
> On Wednesday, August 3, 2016, Seun Ojedeji <seun.ojedeji at gmail.com> 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" <lanfran at yorku.ca> 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: Lanfran at Yorku.ca   Skype: slanfranco
> >> blog:  http://samlanfranco.blogspot.com
> >> Phone: +1 613-476-0429 cell: +1 416-816-2852
> >
>
> --
> *WISDOM DONKOR (S/N Eng.)*
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