Dear all, Regarding agenda point 8 and specifically the dissenting opinion attached to the Report from the Subgroup dealing with the Framework of Interpretation (FOI) of the Human Rights Core Value (see p. 2 of the attached document), which I have filed together with a number of colleagues, I would like to share some thoughts and a suggested path forward with the CCWG Plenary before the calls scheduled to discuss this. The main point of the dissent is, in my view, that we feel that the public comment period showed the existence of two schools of thought: some that favored maintaining the text sent to public comment “as is” (ALAC to a certain extent, and a number of different GNSO constituencies) and those (UK, BRZ, and CH) proposing some steps forward, especially in the recognition of the UN Guiding Principles (Ruggie Principles). However, again in our view, the discussions in the Subgroup did not yield a properly balanced result, which would have reflected at least some if not all of the positions and proposals made by the named Governments. This relates in particular, that the FOI text should make stronger reference to the UN Guiding Principles as the most relevant voluntary international standard. In our view, the Subgroup did not undertake an inclusive enough effort to determine if a compromise text could be formulated that would accommodate this position of the three governments. Therefore, I would like to suggest that the CCWG Plenary could decide that some additional efforts to reaching a broader consensus on this important issue should be made – a broader consensus that could be more inclusive of all views expressed during the public comment period. Hence, I would suggest that the CCWG decides that the Report together with the dissent are sent back to the Subgroup with the request that a broader consensus solution is quickly sought within the coming e.g. 2 weeks after the Plenary call. I hope this way to proceed may seem reasonable to you and obtain your support during the abovementioned call. I would be happy to answer any questions you may have and look forward to your feedback. For my part I’ll try hard to attend the Wednesday call, but I’m (physically) attending at the same time the UN CSTD Working Group on Enhanced Cooperation. Hence, I would be very thankful if this issue could be discussed on the Thursday call instead if possible. Kind regards Jorge Von: accountability-cross-community-bounces@icann.org [mailto:accountability-cross-community-bounces@icann.org] Im Auftrag von Bernard Turcotte Gesendet: Donnerstag, 21. September 2017 18:05 An: Accountability Cross Community <accountability-cross-community@icann.org> Betreff: [CCWG-ACCT] CCWG-Accountability-WS2 - 27-28 September Plenary Agenda and Materials - 1 of 2 All, Please fins below and attached the agenda for the 27-28 September plenary. As noted in an earlier email the Co-Chairs do not believe the plenary can get through all of these materials in a single two hour session and that it is imperative we do so this week given the timing constraints we are working under. As such an additional 2 hour plenary session has been added 28 September 1900 UTC (the original plenary meeting scheduled for 27 September 1300 UTC still stands). Also please note that given the large volume of documents we will be including these in two separate emails to avoid size limit issues for participants. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions or problems with the documents. Bernard Turcotte ICANN Staff Support to the CCWG-Accountability-WS2 Agenda for the CCWG-Accountability-WS2 Plenary of 27 and 28 September 1. Introduction, update to SOIs, reminder on standards of behavior 2. Review of Agenda 3. Administration 3.1. Review timeline. 3.2. Reminder of 27 October face to face in Abu Dhabi. 3.3. Reminder of High Interest sessions in Abu Dhabi 4. Legal Committee Update 4.1. ​ Question sent to ICANN Legal on Ombudsman recommendation 8 regarding the independence of the proposed Ombuds Advisory Panel (questions sent directly to ICANN legal on approval of Co-chairs). 4.2. Transparency – at the 13 September meeting of the sub-group updated language for recommendations 2, 15 and 16 were considered. ICANN Legal advised that they would consider these and provide written feedback to the sub-group. 5. Point on Quorum (held over from last plenary) 6. Second Reading of the draft recommendations of the Diversity sub-group. * CCWG-Accountability-WS2-Diversity-DrafRecommendations-20170927 (attached - same document as distributed to the 30 August plenary) 7. First reading of the final recommendations of the SOAC Accountability sub-group. * CCWG-Accountability-WS2-SOACAcct-FinalReport-20170927 (attached) * CCWG-Accountability-WS2-SOACAcct-FinalReport-RedLine-20170927 (attached) * CCWG-Accountability-WS2-SOACAcct-AnalysisandResponsetoPublicComments-20170927 (attached) 8. First reading of the final recommendations of the Human Rights sub-group. * CCWG-Accountability-WS2-HumanRight-FinalReportWithAdditions-20170927 (attached) * CCWG-Accountability-WS2-HumanRights-PublicConsultation-May2017-Responses (attached) 9. First reading of the draft recommendation of the Ombuds sub-group (please note that the final report of the external review is provided as a separate file due to size issues) * CCWG-Accountability-WS2-Ombudsman-DrafRecommendations-20170927 (attached in second email) * CCWG-Accountability-WS2-Ombudsman-ExternalReview-Final (attached in second email) 10. First reading of the draft recommendation of the Staff Accountability sub-group. * CCWG-Accountability-StaffAcct-DraftReport-20170927V1.6 (attached in second email) * CCWG-Accountability-StaffAcct-DraftReport-TrnasmissionLetter-20170927 (attached in second email) 11. AOB 12. ​Next Plenaries 12.1. Thursday 28 September 19:00UTC​ 12.2. Wednesday 4 October 0500 UTC (optional but please schedule) 12.3. Wednesday 11 October 1300 UTC (optional but please schedule) 12.4. Wednesday 18 October 1900UTC 13. Adjournment