[PC-NCSG] Consensus call on NCSG comments on the COE report Human Rights and ICANN

[Sam Lanfranco]

I too endorse the comment, cleaned up with the proposed wording changes 
highlighted in the 
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1swluHqQOEC4RZSO38if3qpBlfCDIqXjoaChoYYmrBfo/ 
version.

I would note in passing that the issue of human rights and the Internet 
is gaining increased attention on the agendas of a number of 
international and multilateral organizations. That is good but will also 
call for increased vigilance here since there is likely to be a "land 
grab" as significant players try to take control of the process, in 
order to take credit for what is arrived at.

In my view ICANN is not the organization to take the lead in framing 
something for the Internet like the Universal Declaration of Human 
Rights (UNHDR), which in that case was passed by the UN. What ICANN can 
do, within its remit, is champion and become a best-in-class 
organization incorporating the human rights issues into its policies and 
practices. Doing so would be to ICANN's credit and give it a strong seat 
at any venue where the broader framing of Internet rights and human 
rights is taking place. It is my view that this is the strategy ICANN 
should initiate earlier rather than later.

Sam L.

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