A high level committment to a world-wide accepted baseline standard is a sine qua non for WS1, and a prerequisite as far as I am concerned for the transition from semi-state actor to private organisation. WS2 is indeed where we explore the details. But to reject the baseline, or qualify it out of existence is not acceptable -- given the thin ice ICANN is on since the ICO and (particularly) FIFA debacles. On 11/05/2015 05:34 PM, Drazek, Keith wrote:
Agreed, and I am on record supporting that. But further detailed work, including the examples highlighted by Eric, will be required in WS2. Keith
-----Original Message----- From: accountability-cross-community-bounces@icann.org [mailto:accountability-cross-community-bounces@icann.org] On Behalf Of Dr Eberhard W Lisse Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2015 12:31 PM To: CCWG Accountability Cc: Lisse Eberhard Subject: Re: [CCWG-ACCT] Reflections on human rights protection and promotion by ICANN
The human right issue belongs firmly into WS1.
el
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On 5 Nov 2015, at 19:19, Drazek, Keith <kdrazek@verisign.com> wrote:
Thanks Eric. I think these are all valid considerations for Work Stream 2.
Regards, Keith
-----Original Message----- From: accountability-cross-community-bounces@icann.org [mailto:accountability-cross-community-bounces@icann.org] On Behalf Of Eric Brunner-Williams Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2015 11:54 AM To: 'accountability-cross-community@icann.org' Subject: [CCWG-ACCT] Reflections on human rights protection and promotion by ICANN
Colleagues,
Some will recall that when the Government of Egypt, then going through crisis, directed the ISPs within its jurisdiction to withdraw their respective prefix announcements, affecting a series of changes to the global routing database communicated via BGP4, which took Egypt "off-line", that the Corporation did something.
It announced that the one remaining authoritative server for the .eg zone which remained globally accessible would, if its data "expired" before the Government of Egypt directed the ISPs within its jurisdiction to re-announce their respective prefix announcements, again affecting changes to the global routing database communicated via BGP4, putting Egypt back "on-line", refresh the zone date of the one remaining authoritative server for the .eg zone, so that the pre-existing data for the entire .eg zone would not be discarded.
In effect, the Corporation guaranteed the continuous existence of zone data and correctness of resolution, independent of the express intent of the (then) Government of Egypt, because ...
And there is where we have the possibility of writing in the human rights rational for keeping the .eg data from expiry. It could be the rights of Egyptians to continuity and correctness of resolution withing the .eg zone, or the global right to continuity and correctness of resolution of any zone, including the .eg zone, or possibly even further reaching, conditions upon the abilities of state actors to access the global routing database.
Next, at the Santa Monica meeting, which I was able to attend in person, I pointed out that we (Amadeu, myself, ... Vint, ...) had no idea in 2005 that a "cultural and linguistic application" by a Catalan NGO would trigger a vast amount of text generation in Catalan in the namespace delegated to the Catalan NGO. I said something along the lines of "access to namespaces is something the Corporation has direct control over", with the implication that the use of local language, and so the infrastructure which reasonably facilitates that use, is a human right, protected and promoted by the Corporation.
And here too is where we have the possibility of writing in the human rights rational for the IDN program, with all its warts and bells and whistles.
Are there other ways to approach human rights protection and promotion by ICANN? It seems likely to me, but these are things we've done, the Corporation has done with the full knowledge and consent of the Community, and are rather central to the mission of the Corporation -- continuous correct routing and resolution, and identifiers in languages other than US English.
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