-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Hello all, Hope this finds you well! Thank you for joining and being involved with subgroup 2 of the CCWP-HR. 0. Mandate - ---------- How should we define our mandate? Currently it reads: "To document cases and examples in which ICANN is potentially impacting human rights." Given that this will necessarily overlap to an extent with SG3 and SG4, do we wish to narrow down the focus? Or should we keep it broad-ended, and say that what we are seeking to do is a 'snapshot' analysis (unlike SGs 3 and 4, which will engage in an ongoing process). Further, do we wish to include only ICANN policies, or even include individual instances of practices (and applications of policy) which we believe have had HR impact? (For instance, calling out specific instances within the gTLD process, etc.)? Lastly, do we wish to go for breadth of cases, or to take a few and examine them with some amount of depth? 1. Output - --------- What should out output for Marrakesh be? Potentially, subgroup 2 could come out with an issue brief compiling our analysis. 2. Calls - -------- We'd suggest that our subgroup meets over call one day before the CCWP-HR calls. This would mean calls (at say, 1500hrs UTC) on December 20 - January 20 - February 9. In the alternative, we could have our calls an hour before each CCWP-HR call. 3. Some potential topics - ------------------------ 1. The new gTLD Subsequent Procedures PDP: In the Preliminary Issues Report (31 August 2015), a set of 30+ issues have been set out. The following issues are missing or inadequately dealt with: (a) WHOIS privacy; (b) Freedom of expression considerations wrt to gTLD applications, string contention and dispute resolution. This issue is noted in the Preliminary Report, and references the CoE report on ICANN and human rights (October 2014), but does not consider the list or scope of issues involved. 2. UDRP (a) In Clause 4(a) on Mandatory Administrative Proceedings for Applicable Disputes, the scope of applicable disputes is limited to trademark-related disputes. Issues surrounding freedom of expression, privacy, community interests in a domain name, geographical interests in domain names, etc. are not addressed. 3. Name Collisions Management Framework The framework does not set out a process to hear parties with colliding names, but only authorises registries to undertake controlled interruption. 4. WHOIS and privacy, in light of the new PDP Warm regards, Geetha. - -- Geetha Hariharan Programme Officer Centre for Internet and Society W: http://cis-india.org | T: +91 8860 360717 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: GPGTools - https://gpgtools.org iQEcBAEBCgAGBQJWVpQzAAoJENMCY59StgV5Az8H/1U4qBuPMLgJdj/Jm+2uVTPa xxOuAbZ10/l9JPAsTz0o80zGbJukvrLCie6/Uh7fPLkIIl0PVpRwllaAG7uoSu/t SU4Xizm5P0h0IgqJYD3FxbIyaKj1gLa8CwjAJI+KTepuzfnixPiAwqTVJcEO6yB/ S8BAV6o/+ehNvKt0Pyq3LfFfad7Ha+q/xNJmfvsOXPhOtODN1p0r4tpMgre9Qj9L hAmI1DLoKwf2bYYK3u25SkYWuZGAfIGt8k/Ij5QeiqBAn96IzemRc7cRy5e3tf7j OI5AS2Xr6doahKSlNvo/ClMAzgT7Tap6rzbZveIlDIsoAep8b88+qxWSd+NAmaM= =ZO0U -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----