ICANN55 overview, welcome new members, and road forward
Dear all, I hope you are all recovered from ICANN55. We had a lot of activities and made quite a bit of progress. Please find my short overview below. This is also the moment to welcome some new people to our list and our work. To them I'd like to say: Great you're here, welcome, and feel free to ask a question or chip in at any time. Now first a short recap, for the follow-ups, check below. **CCWP HR Public Session** https://meetings.icann.org/en/marrakech55/schedule/mon-ncsg-human-rights Audio Stream: https://meetings.icann.org/en/marrakech55/schedule/mon-ncsg-human-rights/aud... Transcript: https://meetings.icann.org/en/marrakech55/schedule/mon-ncsg-human-rights/tra... We had a very well attended public session in which member from different parts of the community as well as four board members actively participated, next to ICANN staff. There was a lively discussion as well as presentations of the work of all the subgroups by Tatiana, Vidushi, Motoko, Marilia, and Monika. You can find the slides, transcripts and recordings under the links provided above. The feedback we have received both after the session and in the hallways was very positive and people were very impressed by the structured, thorough and consist nature of the work that is being delivered. Unfortunately the audio connection with Jeremy Malcolm did not work out so there was no presentation on intermediary liability. In several **Joint session CCWP HR – GAC WG HRIL** https://meetings.icann.org/en/marrakech55/schedule/tue-gac-hril-ccwp Audio Stream: https://meetings.icann.org/en/marrakech55/schedule/tue-gac-hril-ccwp/ac-gac-... Transcript: https://meetings.icann.org/en/marrakech55/schedule/tue-gac-hril-ccwp/transcr... The joint session between the CCWP HR and the GAC WG HRIL unfortunately coincided with a very crucial moment in the development of the GAC communiqué vis-a-vis the CCWG accountability proposal. The GAC had just decided it would go for a short break, and would continue drafting through the evening and into the night. Therefor the attendance of the joint session by governments was not as big as we hoped, but the engagement with the government representatives present as well as the GAC working group co-chairs was very constructive. Marília , Motoko, Tatiana and Aarti provided a great overview of our work and our initial thoughts about possible ways forward. The GAC WG repeatedly expressed their appreciation of the work, as well as the commitment to continue communication, collaboration and coordination in the work ahead. Currently the CAG WG on HRIL is deciding on its work plan for the coming time. **Meeting with staff** After running into Theresa Swineheart in the hallways and shortly discussing human rights with her, I received an invitation to discuss a coordination of human rights work with the staff. Because this was an explicit ask we made to Nigel Hikson in our previous calls I thought this would be a good opportunity, and asked Tatiana and Motoko to join me in this meeting. The meeting was attended by Samantha Eisner from ICANN’s general council’s office, Nora Abusita, Theresa Swineheart and Elizabeth Andrews. Elizabeth Andrews will be ICANN’s staff main contact point for human rights issues. After brief introductions, we established the significance and importance of having the CCWP HR as a forum of convergence and discussion on human rights issues, that are now mushrooming all over ICANN. For ICANN staff is was crucial that the discussions in WS2 are reflective of community discussions. The board will also be engaging in Workstream two, and it was reiterated that it is crucial to remain within ICANN's mission and scope. Nonetheless, the concrete development of work is taking place in the PDPs and the CCWG on accountability. It is of importance that we are focused on the importance of not duplicating efforts, and keeping each other informed. This could pre-empt misunderstandings and concerns that live in different parts of the community. We concluded that Liz will be the future point of contact. And the CCWP aims to improve her visibility and communication with the community as we also discussed in our last CCWP HR call. Finally, in this meeting as well as in the CCWG face-to-face meeting there seems to be quite some gusto for the human rights impact assessment to first understand what are the concrete issues at hand. It was also observed by Samantha that corporate practices need a different analysis than a rights impact analysis during the PDP process. We suggested we would also look at the risk framework that is currently being developed to analyze ICANNs rights impact. The CFO and staff seemed interested by this idea. Theresa will be responsible for the human rights work in WorkStream two, Elisabeth will be our point of contact and Samantha will provide all the legal assessments needed. All reiterated they are were open and ready to engage withthe community. **Questions to the board** https://meetings.icann.org/en/marrakech55/schedule/tue-board-ncsg Audio Stream: https://meetings.icann.org/en/marrakech55/schedule/tue-board-ncsg/audio-boar... We agreed in the NCSG to ask the following questions to the board concerning human rights: In the CCWP HR we've been working on the preparation for a human rights policy for ICANN, which would be needed to live up to the commitment to human rights which is proposed in the CCWG report. How does the board envision a process for the development of a human rights policy for ICANN ? Will there be dedicated ICANN staff working on the development of a human rights policy who could also function as a focal point on human rights? And if so, who will this be? Will making a human rights statement by the board be part of this, as suggested by the board in your comments to the 3rd draft report of the CCWG on Accountability? You can find the full recording above (transcript not yet available), but the the board reaffirmed its commitment to work on human rights; it nonetheless did not prepare a board human rights statement for this meeting but is still intending to do so. The response to the questions by different board members showed a constructive attitude but also different perspectives held by different members of the board. **CCWG Accountability Report passed** As you all probably know, all constituencies have approved the report produced by the CCWG on accountability, in the mean time the board has also forwarded it to NTIA where it is now under review and after which this will be forwarded to Congress. In the mean time the CCWG is working with ICANN lawyers on the drafting of the bylaws, as described in the report. Subsequently, we will start with the implementation of work stream 2 but the talks about this are still in a very early stage. Once the call for volunteers for work stream 2 is out I will make sure to post it here. As well as of course the draft of the bylaw language as proposed in annex 6 of the CCWG accountability proposal. **CCWP HR Working Session + To Do's** https://meetings.icann.org/en/marrakech55/schedule/wed-ccwp-human-rights Audio Stream: https://meetings.icann.org/en/marrakech55/schedule/wed-ccwp-human-rights/aud... Transcript: https://meetings.icann.org/en/marrakech55/schedule/wed-ccwp-human-rights/ccw... In a constructive working session we evaluated the current working methods, and decided that five subgroups was a bit of an overkill. So we decided to reduce to three thematic subgroups: by merging subgroup 1 and 2 into 1 research group, as well as sub group 4 and 5 into 1 PDP liaising policy group to support the important work that is happening, and will happen in the PDPs for new Gtlds, RDAP, WHOIS, and others. The subgroup 3 will remain focused on the CCWG Accountability work stream 2. This all worked great with the support of Maryam. You should have all been moved to the relevant sublists, if not you can subscribe here. https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/cc-humanrights-research https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/cc-humanrights-ws2 https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/cc-humanrights-pdp I would like to ask all the groups to rework their ToR and share it on this list before the next call. The notes I have about scope are: Research Group: - Continue Vizualizations - Map cases that make the link between ICANN and human rights - UDRP - Privacy & Data Protection - RAA - Whois - Trademark & Copyright Protection Mechanism - new gTLDs - Auctions - Geographical names -> volunteers: Monika, Vidushi*, Gangesh, Marillia, Aarti, Renata + members on the list, new people very welcome Human Rights Workstream 2 Group - Focus on human rights recommendation in WS2 - Aim to also grasp other issues such as diversity - Continue work on Human Rights Impact Assessment - Map Framework of Interpretation History - Engage with legal experise - Report back about the process -> Volunteers: Aarti, Matthew Gangesh, Milton, Tatiana, Niels* + members on the list, new people very welcome PDP Group - Provide research to inform PDPs - WHOIS, RDAP - new gTLDs - Auction proceeds - RPM pdp - Engage and report back, map how we can contribute and how it impacts Human Rights -> Volunteers: Renata, Vidushi, Gangesh, Marilia*, Monika, Aarti + members on the list, new people very welcome I would like to ask Vidushi (Research Group) and Marilia (PDP group) to get this work going and ensure we have a ToR and update sub-sites on the wiki before our next call. I'll do so for the WS2 group. **Calls** I would like to propose following call schedules: CCWP HR calls: 13:00 UTC 16:00 UTC CCWP HR Research call April 1, 13:00 UTC April 29 16:00 UTC May 27, 13:00 UTC CCWP HR WS2 April 8, 16:0 UTC May 6, 13:00 UTC April 3, 16:00 UTC CCWP HR PDP call: April 15, 13:00 UTC May 13, 16:00 UTC June 10, 13:00 UTC CCWP HR call: April 22, 16:00 UTC May 20, 13:00 UTC June 17, 16:00 UTC June 22, 13:00 UTC June 27-30 ICANN Helsinki. Please let me know if you would like to alter this, if not I'll ask Mariam to send out invites for this. **Conclusion** Looking forward to make the next steps in this important human rights work in ICANN together with you. Join the mailinglists: https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/cc-humanrights-research https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/cc-humanrights-ws2 https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/cc-humanrights-pdp and let's get to the work :) If you have any questions or suggestions, always feel free to reach out to the list, or to me directly. Also let me know if you think something is misrepresented in this mail or something important is missing. All the best, Niels -- Niels ten Oever Head of Digital Article 19 www.article19.org PGP fingerprint 8D9F C567 BEE4 A431 56C4 678B 08B5 A0F2 636D 68E9
And the first mistake in my email has already been spotted (thanks Tatiana). Here is a corrected lists for the call dates and times: CCWP HR Research call April 1, 13:00 UTC April 29 16:00 UTC May 27, 13:00 UTC CCWP HR WS2 April 8, 16:0 UTC May 6, 13:00 UTC June 3, 16:00 UTC CCWP HR PDP call: April 15, 13:00 UTC May 13, 16:00 UTC June 10, 13:00 UTC CCWP HR call: April 22, 16:00 UTC May 20, 13:00 UTC June 17, 16:00 UTC June 22, 13:00 UTC June 27-30 ICANN Helsinki. Best, Niels Niels ten Oever Head of Digital Article 19 www.article19.org PGP fingerprint 8D9F C567 BEE4 A431 56C4 678B 08B5 A0F2 636D 68E9 On 03/20/2016 11:55 AM, Niels ten Oever wrote:
Dear all,
I hope you are all recovered from ICANN55. We had a lot of activities and made quite a bit of progress. Please find my short overview below. This is also the moment to welcome some new people to our list and our work. To them I'd like to say: Great you're here, welcome, and feel free to ask a question or chip in at any time.
Now first a short recap, for the follow-ups, check below.
**CCWP HR Public Session** https://meetings.icann.org/en/marrakech55/schedule/mon-ncsg-human-rights Audio Stream: https://meetings.icann.org/en/marrakech55/schedule/mon-ncsg-human-rights/aud... Transcript: https://meetings.icann.org/en/marrakech55/schedule/mon-ncsg-human-rights/tra...
We had a very well attended public session in which member from different parts of the community as well as four board members actively participated, next to ICANN staff. There was a lively discussion as well as presentations of the work of all the subgroups by Tatiana, Vidushi, Motoko, Marilia, and Monika. You can find the slides, transcripts and recordings under the links provided above. The feedback we have received both after the session and in the hallways was very positive and people were very impressed by the structured, thorough and consist nature of the work that is being delivered. Unfortunately the audio connection with Jeremy Malcolm did not work out so there was no presentation on intermediary liability. In several
**Joint session CCWP HR – GAC WG HRIL** https://meetings.icann.org/en/marrakech55/schedule/tue-gac-hril-ccwp Audio Stream: https://meetings.icann.org/en/marrakech55/schedule/tue-gac-hril-ccwp/ac-gac-... Transcript: https://meetings.icann.org/en/marrakech55/schedule/tue-gac-hril-ccwp/transcr...
The joint session between the CCWP HR and the GAC WG HRIL unfortunately coincided with a very crucial moment in the development of the GAC communiqué vis-a-vis the CCWG accountability proposal. The GAC had just decided it would go for a short break, and would continue drafting through the evening and into the night. Therefor the attendance of the joint session by governments was not as big as we hoped, but the engagement with the government representatives present as well as the GAC working group co-chairs was very constructive. Marília , Motoko, Tatiana and Aarti provided a great overview of our work and our initial thoughts about possible ways forward. The GAC WG repeatedly expressed their appreciation of the work, as well as the commitment to continue communication, collaboration and coordination in the work ahead. Currently the CAG WG on HRIL is deciding on its work plan for the coming time.
**Meeting with staff** After running into Theresa Swineheart in the hallways and shortly discussing human rights with her, I received an invitation to discuss a coordination of human rights work with the staff. Because this was an explicit ask we made to Nigel Hikson in our previous calls I thought this would be a good opportunity, and asked Tatiana and Motoko to join me in this meeting.
The meeting was attended by Samantha Eisner from ICANN’s general council’s office, Nora Abusita, Theresa Swineheart and Elizabeth Andrews. Elizabeth Andrews will be ICANN’s staff main contact point for human rights issues. After brief introductions, we established the significance and importance of having the CCWP HR as a forum of convergence and discussion on human rights issues, that are now mushrooming all over ICANN. For ICANN staff is was crucial that the discussions in WS2 are reflective of community discussions. The board will also be engaging in Workstream two, and it was reiterated that it is crucial to remain within ICANN's mission and scope.
Nonetheless, the concrete development of work is taking place in the PDPs and the CCWG on accountability. It is of importance that we are focused on the importance of not duplicating efforts, and keeping each other informed. This could pre-empt misunderstandings and concerns that live in different parts of the community. We concluded that Liz will be the future point of contact. And the CCWP aims to improve her visibility and communication with the community as we also discussed in our last CCWP HR call. Finally, in this meeting as well as in the CCWG face-to-face meeting there seems to be quite some gusto for the human rights impact assessment to first understand what are the concrete issues at hand. It was also observed by Samantha that corporate practices need a different analysis than a rights impact analysis during the PDP process. We suggested we would also look at the risk framework that is currently being developed to analyze ICANNs rights impact. The CFO and staff seemed interested by this idea. Theresa will be responsible for the human rights work in WorkStream two, Elisabeth will be our point of contact and Samantha will provide all the legal assessments needed. All reiterated they are were open and ready to engage withthe community.
**Questions to the board** https://meetings.icann.org/en/marrakech55/schedule/tue-board-ncsg Audio Stream: https://meetings.icann.org/en/marrakech55/schedule/tue-board-ncsg/audio-boar...
We agreed in the NCSG to ask the following questions to the board concerning human rights:
In the CCWP HR we've been working on the preparation for a human rights policy for ICANN, which would be needed to live up to the commitment to human rights which is proposed in the CCWG report. How does the board envision a process for the development of a human rights policy for ICANN ? Will there be dedicated ICANN staff working on the development of a human rights policy who could also function as a focal point on human rights? And if so, who will this be? Will making a human rights statement by the board be part of this, as suggested by the board in your comments to the 3rd draft report of the CCWG on Accountability?
You can find the full recording above (transcript not yet available), but the the board reaffirmed its commitment to work on human rights; it nonetheless did not prepare a board human rights statement for this meeting but is still intending to do so. The response to the questions by different board members showed a constructive attitude but also different perspectives held by different members of the board.
**CCWG Accountability Report passed** As you all probably know, all constituencies have approved the report produced by the CCWG on accountability, in the mean time the board has also forwarded it to NTIA where it is now under review and after which this will be forwarded to Congress. In the mean time the CCWG is working with ICANN lawyers on the drafting of the bylaws, as described in the report. Subsequently, we will start with the implementation of work stream 2 but the talks about this are still in a very early stage. Once the call for volunteers for work stream 2 is out I will make sure to post it here. As well as of course the draft of the bylaw language as proposed in annex 6 of the CCWG accountability proposal.
**CCWP HR Working Session + To Do's** https://meetings.icann.org/en/marrakech55/schedule/wed-ccwp-human-rights Audio Stream: https://meetings.icann.org/en/marrakech55/schedule/wed-ccwp-human-rights/aud... Transcript: https://meetings.icann.org/en/marrakech55/schedule/wed-ccwp-human-rights/ccw...
In a constructive working session we evaluated the current working methods, and decided that five subgroups was a bit of an overkill. So we decided to reduce to three thematic subgroups: by merging subgroup 1 and 2 into 1 research group, as well as sub group 4 and 5 into 1 PDP liaising policy group to support the important work that is happening, and will happen in the PDPs for new Gtlds, RDAP, WHOIS, and others. The subgroup 3 will remain focused on the CCWG Accountability work stream 2.
This all worked great with the support of Maryam. You should have all been moved to the relevant sublists, if not you can subscribe here.
https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/cc-humanrights-research https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/cc-humanrights-ws2 https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/cc-humanrights-pdp
I would like to ask all the groups to rework their ToR and share it on this list before the next call. The notes I have about scope are:
Research Group: - Continue Vizualizations - Map cases that make the link between ICANN and human rights - UDRP - Privacy & Data Protection - RAA - Whois - Trademark & Copyright Protection Mechanism - new gTLDs - Auctions - Geographical names
-> volunteers: Monika, Vidushi*, Gangesh, Marillia, Aarti, Renata + members on the list, new people very welcome
Human Rights Workstream 2 Group - Focus on human rights recommendation in WS2 - Aim to also grasp other issues such as diversity - Continue work on Human Rights Impact Assessment - Map Framework of Interpretation History - Engage with legal experise - Report back about the process
-> Volunteers: Aarti, Matthew Gangesh, Milton, Tatiana, Niels* + members on the list, new people very welcome
PDP Group - Provide research to inform PDPs - WHOIS, RDAP - new gTLDs - Auction proceeds - RPM pdp - Engage and report back, map how we can contribute and how it impacts Human Rights
-> Volunteers: Renata, Vidushi, Gangesh, Marilia*, Monika, Aarti + members on the list, new people very welcome
I would like to ask Vidushi (Research Group) and Marilia (PDP group) to get this work going and ensure we have a ToR and update sub-sites on the wiki before our next call. I'll do so for the WS2 group.
**Calls**
I would like to propose following call schedules:
CCWP HR calls: 13:00 UTC 16:00 UTC
CCWP HR Research call April 1, 13:00 UTC April 29 16:00 UTC May 27, 13:00 UTC
CCWP HR WS2 April 8, 16:0 UTC May 6, 13:00 UTC April 3, 16:00 UTC
CCWP HR PDP call: April 15, 13:00 UTC May 13, 16:00 UTC June 10, 13:00 UTC
CCWP HR call: April 22, 16:00 UTC May 20, 13:00 UTC June 17, 16:00 UTC June 22, 13:00 UTC
June 27-30 ICANN Helsinki.
Please let me know if you would like to alter this, if not I'll ask Mariam to send out invites for this.
**Conclusion**
Looking forward to make the next steps in this important human rights work in ICANN together with you. Join the mailinglists:
https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/cc-humanrights-research https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/cc-humanrights-ws2 https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/cc-humanrights-pdp
and let's get to the work :)
If you have any questions or suggestions, always feel free to reach out to the list, or to me directly. Also let me know if you think something is misrepresented in this mail or something important is missing.
All the best,
Niels
Hi Niels, Thanks for a great summary and for the proposals of the call times. :-) even with corrected times (hehe) I am unfortunately not able to make almost any of the proposed (general) calls for CCWP-HR: 22 April is SEEDIG in Belgrade, I believe I am not the only one from the group who is going there 20 May - workshop in Georgia Tech in Atlanta - may be I am not the only one who will have the availability issues because of this. *Sigh*. During the last two calls I am on road trip in Portugal but I will do my best to join. This is individual availability issue, however, can we reschedule those proposed for 22 April and 20 May because I might be not the only one not being able to attend? Say, (1) 20th or 25, 26 of April and (2) 16, 17 or 23 of May? Thanks a lot! Cheers Tanya On 20 March 2016 at 12:04, Niels ten Oever <niels@article19.org> wrote:
And the first mistake in my email has already been spotted (thanks Tatiana). Here is a corrected lists for the call dates and times:
CCWP HR Research call April 1, 13:00 UTC April 29 16:00 UTC May 27, 13:00 UTC
CCWP HR WS2 April 8, 16:0 UTC May 6, 13:00 UTC June 3, 16:00 UTC
CCWP HR PDP call: April 15, 13:00 UTC May 13, 16:00 UTC June 10, 13:00 UTC
CCWP HR call: April 22, 16:00 UTC May 20, 13:00 UTC June 17, 16:00 UTC June 22, 13:00 UTC
June 27-30 ICANN Helsinki.
Best,
Niels
Niels ten Oever Head of Digital
Article 19 www.article19.org
PGP fingerprint 8D9F C567 BEE4 A431 56C4 678B 08B5 A0F2 636D 68E9
On 03/20/2016 11:55 AM, Niels ten Oever wrote:
Dear all,
I hope you are all recovered from ICANN55. We had a lot of activities and made quite a bit of progress. Please find my short overview below. This is also the moment to welcome some new people to our list and our work. To them I'd like to say: Great you're here, welcome, and feel free to ask a question or chip in at any time.
Now first a short recap, for the follow-ups, check below.
**CCWP HR Public Session** https://meetings.icann.org/en/marrakech55/schedule/mon-ncsg-human-rights Audio Stream:
https://meetings.icann.org/en/marrakech55/schedule/mon-ncsg-human-rights/aud...
Transcript:
https://meetings.icann.org/en/marrakech55/schedule/mon-ncsg-human-rights/tra...
We had a very well attended public session in which member from different parts of the community as well as four board members actively participated, next to ICANN staff. There was a lively discussion as well as presentations of the work of all the subgroups by Tatiana, Vidushi, Motoko, Marilia, and Monika. You can find the slides, transcripts and recordings under the links provided above. The feedback we have received both after the session and in the hallways was very positive and people were very impressed by the structured, thorough and consist nature of the work that is being delivered. Unfortunately the audio connection with Jeremy Malcolm did not work out so there was no presentation on intermediary liability. In several
**Joint session CCWP HR – GAC WG HRIL** https://meetings.icann.org/en/marrakech55/schedule/tue-gac-hril-ccwp Audio Stream:
https://meetings.icann.org/en/marrakech55/schedule/tue-gac-hril-ccwp/ac-gac-...
Transcript:
https://meetings.icann.org/en/marrakech55/schedule/tue-gac-hril-ccwp/transcr...
The joint session between the CCWP HR and the GAC WG HRIL unfortunately coincided with a very crucial moment in the development of the GAC communiqué vis-a-vis the CCWG accountability proposal. The GAC had just decided it would go for a short break, and would continue drafting through the evening and into the night. Therefor the attendance of the joint session by governments was not as big as we hoped, but the engagement with the government representatives present as well as the GAC working group co-chairs was very constructive. Marília , Motoko, Tatiana and Aarti provided a great overview of our work and our initial thoughts about possible ways forward. The GAC WG repeatedly expressed their appreciation of the work, as well as the commitment to continue communication, collaboration and coordination in the work ahead. Currently the CAG WG on HRIL is deciding on its work plan for the coming time.
**Meeting with staff** After running into Theresa Swineheart in the hallways and shortly discussing human rights with her, I received an invitation to discuss a coordination of human rights work with the staff. Because this was an explicit ask we made to Nigel Hikson in our previous calls I thought this would be a good opportunity, and asked Tatiana and Motoko to join me in this meeting.
The meeting was attended by Samantha Eisner from ICANN’s general council’s office, Nora Abusita, Theresa Swineheart and Elizabeth Andrews. Elizabeth Andrews will be ICANN’s staff main contact point for human rights issues. After brief introductions, we established the significance and importance of having the CCWP HR as a forum of convergence and discussion on human rights issues, that are now mushrooming all over ICANN. For ICANN staff is was crucial that the discussions in WS2 are reflective of community discussions. The board will also be engaging in Workstream two, and it was reiterated that it is crucial to remain within ICANN's mission and scope.
Nonetheless, the concrete development of work is taking place in the PDPs and the CCWG on accountability. It is of importance that we are focused on the importance of not duplicating efforts, and keeping each other informed. This could pre-empt misunderstandings and concerns that live in different parts of the community. We concluded that Liz will be the future point of contact. And the CCWP aims to improve her visibility and communication with the community as we also discussed in our last CCWP HR call. Finally, in this meeting as well as in the CCWG face-to-face meeting there seems to be quite some gusto for the human rights impact assessment to first understand what are the concrete issues at hand. It was also observed by Samantha that corporate practices need a different analysis than a rights impact analysis during the PDP process. We suggested we would also look at the risk framework that is currently being developed to analyze ICANNs rights impact. The CFO and staff seemed interested by this idea. Theresa will be responsible for the human rights work in WorkStream two, Elisabeth will be our point of contact and Samantha will provide all the legal assessments needed. All reiterated they are were open and ready to engage withthe community.
**Questions to the board** https://meetings.icann.org/en/marrakech55/schedule/tue-board-ncsg Audio Stream:
https://meetings.icann.org/en/marrakech55/schedule/tue-board-ncsg/audio-boar...
We agreed in the NCSG to ask the following questions to the board concerning human rights:
In the CCWP HR we've been working on the preparation for a human rights policy for ICANN, which would be needed to live up to the commitment to human rights which is proposed in the CCWG report. How does the board envision a process for the development of a human rights policy for ICANN ? Will there be dedicated ICANN staff working on the development of a human rights policy who could also function as a focal point on human rights? And if so, who will this be? Will making a human rights statement by the board be part of this, as suggested by the board in your comments to the 3rd draft report of the CCWG on Accountability?
You can find the full recording above (transcript not yet available), but the the board reaffirmed its commitment to work on human rights; it nonetheless did not prepare a board human rights statement for this meeting but is still intending to do so. The response to the questions by different board members showed a constructive attitude but also different perspectives held by different members of the board.
**CCWG Accountability Report passed** As you all probably know, all constituencies have approved the report produced by the CCWG on accountability, in the mean time the board has also forwarded it to NTIA where it is now under review and after which this will be forwarded to Congress. In the mean time the CCWG is working with ICANN lawyers on the drafting of the bylaws, as described in the report. Subsequently, we will start with the implementation of work stream 2 but the talks about this are still in a very early stage. Once the call for volunteers for work stream 2 is out I will make sure to post it here. As well as of course the draft of the bylaw language as proposed in annex 6 of the CCWG accountability proposal.
**CCWP HR Working Session + To Do's** https://meetings.icann.org/en/marrakech55/schedule/wed-ccwp-human-rights Audio Stream:
https://meetings.icann.org/en/marrakech55/schedule/wed-ccwp-human-rights/aud...
Transcript:
https://meetings.icann.org/en/marrakech55/schedule/wed-ccwp-human-rights/ccw...
In a constructive working session we evaluated the current working methods, and decided that five subgroups was a bit of an overkill. So we decided to reduce to three thematic subgroups: by merging subgroup 1 and 2 into 1 research group, as well as sub group 4 and 5 into 1 PDP liaising policy group to support the important work that is happening, and will happen in the PDPs for new Gtlds, RDAP, WHOIS, and others. The subgroup 3 will remain focused on the CCWG Accountability work stream 2.
This all worked great with the support of Maryam. You should have all been moved to the relevant sublists, if not you can subscribe here.
https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/cc-humanrights-research https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/cc-humanrights-ws2 https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/cc-humanrights-pdp
I would like to ask all the groups to rework their ToR and share it on this list before the next call. The notes I have about scope are:
Research Group: - Continue Vizualizations - Map cases that make the link between ICANN and human rights - UDRP - Privacy & Data Protection - RAA - Whois - Trademark & Copyright Protection Mechanism - new gTLDs - Auctions - Geographical names
-> volunteers: Monika, Vidushi*, Gangesh, Marillia, Aarti, Renata + members on the list, new people very welcome
Human Rights Workstream 2 Group - Focus on human rights recommendation in WS2 - Aim to also grasp other issues such as diversity - Continue work on Human Rights Impact Assessment - Map Framework of Interpretation History - Engage with legal experise - Report back about the process
-> Volunteers: Aarti, Matthew Gangesh, Milton, Tatiana, Niels* + members on the list, new people very welcome
PDP Group - Provide research to inform PDPs - WHOIS, RDAP - new gTLDs - Auction proceeds - RPM pdp - Engage and report back, map how we can contribute and how it impacts Human Rights
-> Volunteers: Renata, Vidushi, Gangesh, Marilia*, Monika, Aarti + members on the list, new people very welcome
I would like to ask Vidushi (Research Group) and Marilia (PDP group) to get this work going and ensure we have a ToR and update sub-sites on the wiki before our next call. I'll do so for the WS2 group.
**Calls**
I would like to propose following call schedules:
CCWP HR calls: 13:00 UTC 16:00 UTC
CCWP HR Research call April 1, 13:00 UTC April 29 16:00 UTC May 27, 13:00 UTC
CCWP HR WS2 April 8, 16:0 UTC May 6, 13:00 UTC April 3, 16:00 UTC
CCWP HR PDP call: April 15, 13:00 UTC May 13, 16:00 UTC June 10, 13:00 UTC
CCWP HR call: April 22, 16:00 UTC May 20, 13:00 UTC June 17, 16:00 UTC June 22, 13:00 UTC
June 27-30 ICANN Helsinki.
Please let me know if you would like to alter this, if not I'll ask Mariam to send out invites for this.
**Conclusion**
Looking forward to make the next steps in this important human rights work in ICANN together with you. Join the mailinglists:
https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/cc-humanrights-research https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/cc-humanrights-ws2 https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/cc-humanrights-pdp
and let's get to the work :)
If you have any questions or suggestions, always feel free to reach out to the list, or to me directly. Also let me know if you think something is misrepresented in this mail or something important is missing.
All the best,
Niels
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Hi all, Tatiana requested (with some good reasons that are probably applicable to several of you) to make some small alterations to the proposed call schedule. I reflected them below. I'll ask Maryam to plan the calls accordingly. If you have any issues please let me know off-list and I'll try to accommodate. Please allow me to remind you that I would like to you to prepare short Terms of Reference for the subgroups before the call so you can agree and finalize during your first calls and get the work going. The terms of reference would be no more than an Objective, Expected Results, Activities, Division of Labour and Timeline. Please share the ToRs with this lists after you agreed on your first calls. CCWP HR Research call April 1, 13:00 UTC April 29 16:00 UTC May 27, 13:00 UTC CCWP HR WS2 April 8, 16:0 UTC May 6, 13:00 UTC June 3, 16:00 UTC CCWP HR PDP call: April 15, 13:00 UTC May 13, 16:00 UTC June 10, 13:00 UTC CCWP HR call: April 25, 16:00 UTC May 17, 13:00 UTC June 17, 16:00 UTC June 22, 13:00 UTC June 27-30 ICANN Helsinki. All the best, Niels Niels ten Oever Head of Digital Article 19 www.article19.org PGP fingerprint 8D9F C567 BEE4 A431 56C4 678B 08B5 A0F2 636D 68E9 On 03/20/2016 12:25 PM, Tatiana Tropina wrote:
CCWP HR Research call April 1, 13:00 UTC April 29 16:00 UTC May 27, 13:00 UTC
CCWP HR WS2 April 8, 16:0 UTC May 6, 13:00 UTC June 3, 16:00 UTC
CCWP HR PDP call: April 15, 13:00 UTC May 13, 16:00 UTC June 10, 13:00 UTC
CCWP HR call: April 22, 16:00 UTC May 20, 13:00 UTC June 17, 16:00 UTC June 22, 13:00 UTC
June 27-30 ICANN Helsinki.
Great report. Thanks On 20-Mar-16 06:55, Niels ten Oever wrote:
- new gTLDs - Auctions - Geographical names
-> volunteers: Monika, Vidushi*, Gangesh, Marillia, Aarti, Renata + members on the list, new people very welcome
Since there is a GNSO PDP on new gTLDs, of which I am a co-chair, I would like to insure close cooperation in these efforts. avri
Dear Neils, Thanks a lot for this, its a fantastic breakdown of our progress at ICANN55. Dear Colleagues, It was a pleasure meeting you all in Marrakech and look forward to working together with the various groups. Colleagues in Research Group 1 - kindly let me know if the call schedules are fine as then we can work according to that timeline. I will be sending an email before our first call with further details. Do let me know. Dear Avri, It will be fantastic to work in coordination with you in re: the gNSO PDP on new gTLDs. Does our first call, on April 1, at 13:00 UTC work for you? Look forward to hearing from you all, Vidushi ----- On Mar 20, 2016, at 6:56 PM, avri doria avri@apc.org wrote:
Great report. Thanks
On 20-Mar-16 06:55, Niels ten Oever wrote:
- new gTLDs - Auctions - Geographical names
-> volunteers: Monika, Vidushi*, Gangesh, Marillia, Aarti, Renata + members on the list, new people very welcome
Since there is a GNSO PDP on new gTLDs, of which I am a co-chair, I would like to insure close cooperation in these efforts.
avri
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Dear Gangesh, Aarti, Marillia, Monika and Renata, I just wanted to circle back on my email below. The Research Sub Group's first call was supposed to be today, 1st April at 13:00 UTC. As I have received no confirmation, I have suggested moving this call to the 4th of April, at 13:00 UTC. Kindly confirm your availability so Mariam can provide us support. I am posting on the meta list in case newer members would be interested in joining our work and have not subscribed to the sub group mailing list which is cc-humanrights-research@icann.org. Best wishes and look forward to your confirmations, Vidushi ----- On Mar 25, 2016, at 10:51 AM, vidushi@cis-india.org wrote:
Dear Neils,
Thanks a lot for this, its a fantastic breakdown of our progress at ICANN55.
Dear Colleagues,
It was a pleasure meeting you all in Marrakech and look forward to working together with the various groups. Colleagues in Research Group 1 - kindly let me know if the call schedules are fine as then we can work according to that timeline. I will be sending an email before our first call with further details. Do let me know.
Dear Avri,
It will be fantastic to work in coordination with you in re: the gNSO PDP on new gTLDs. Does our first call, on April 1, at 13:00 UTC work for you?
Look forward to hearing from you all,
Vidushi
----- On Mar 20, 2016, at 6:56 PM, avri doria avri@apc.org wrote:
Great report. Thanks
On 20-Mar-16 06:55, Niels ten Oever wrote:
- new gTLDs - Auctions - Geographical names
-> volunteers: Monika, Vidushi*, Gangesh, Marillia, Aarti, Renata + members on the list, new people very welcome
Since there is a GNSO PDP on new gTLDs, of which I am a co-chair, I would like to insure close cooperation in these efforts.
avri
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Dear Vidushi and all, I do confirm participation in the call of the Research subgroup tomorrow. Thanks and speak soon! Marília On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 7:07 AM, <vidushi@cis-india.org> wrote:
Dear Gangesh, Aarti, Marillia, Monika and Renata,
I just wanted to circle back on my email below. The Research Sub Group's first call was supposed to be today, 1st April at 13:00 UTC. As I have received no confirmation, I have suggested moving this call to the 4th of April, at 13:00 UTC. Kindly confirm your availability so Mariam can provide us support.
I am posting on the meta list in case newer members would be interested in joining our work and have not subscribed to the sub group mailing list which is cc-humanrights-research@icann.org.
Best wishes and look forward to your confirmations,
Vidushi
----- On Mar 25, 2016, at 10:51 AM, vidushi@cis-india.org wrote:
Dear Neils,
Thanks a lot for this, its a fantastic breakdown of our progress at ICANN55.
Dear Colleagues,
It was a pleasure meeting you all in Marrakech and look forward to working together with the various groups. Colleagues in Research Group 1 - kindly let me know if the call schedules are fine as then we can work according to that timeline. I will be sending an email before our first call with further details. Do let me know.
Dear Avri,
It will be fantastic to work in coordination with you in re: the gNSO PDP on new gTLDs. Does our first call, on April 1, at 13:00 UTC work for you?
Look forward to hearing from you all,
Vidushi
----- On Mar 20, 2016, at 6:56 PM, avri doria avri@apc.org wrote:
Great report. Thanks
On 20-Mar-16 06:55, Niels ten Oever wrote:
- new gTLDs - Auctions - Geographical names
-> volunteers: Monika, Vidushi*, Gangesh, Marillia, Aarti, Renata + members on the list, new people very welcome
Since there is a GNSO PDP on new gTLDs, of which I am a co-chair, I would like to insure close cooperation in these efforts.
avri
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Please feel free to engage with me whenever this work crosses into my role Regards Chris LaHatte Ombudsman Blog https://omblog.icann.org/ Webpage http://www.icann.org/en/help/ombudsman For feedback on how I am doing http://www.icannombudsman.feedback/ Confidentiality All matters brought before the Ombudsman shall be treated as confidential. The Ombudsman shall also take all reasonable steps necessary to preserve the privacy of, and to avoid harm to, those parties not involved in the complaint being investigated by the Ombudsman.The Ombudsman shall only make inquiries about, or advise staff or Board members of the existence and identity of, a complainant in order to further the resolution of the complaint. The Ombudsman shall take all reasonable steps necessary to ensure that if staff and Board members are made aware of the existence and identity of a complainant, they agree to maintain the confidential nature of such information, except as necessary to further the resolution of a complaint. -----Original Message----- From: cc-humanrights-bounces@icann.org [mailto:cc-humanrights-bounces@icann.org] On Behalf Of Niels ten Oever Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2016 11:56 PM To: Human Rights <cc-humanrights@icann.org> Subject: [cc-humanrights] ICANN55 overview, welcome new members, and road forward Dear all, I hope you are all recovered from ICANN55. We had a lot of activities and made quite a bit of progress. Please find my short overview below. This is also the moment to welcome some new people to our list and our work. To them I'd like to say: Great you're here, welcome, and feel free to ask a question or chip in at any time. Now first a short recap, for the follow-ups, check below. **CCWP HR Public Session** https://meetings.icann.org/en/marrakech55/schedule/mon-ncsg-human-rights Audio Stream: https://meetings.icann.org/en/marrakech55/schedule/mon-ncsg-human-rights/aud... Transcript: https://meetings.icann.org/en/marrakech55/schedule/mon-ncsg-human-rights/tra... We had a very well attended public session in which member from different parts of the community as well as four board members actively participated, next to ICANN staff. There was a lively discussion as well as presentations of the work of all the subgroups by Tatiana, Vidushi, Motoko, Marilia, and Monika. You can find the slides, transcripts and recordings under the links provided above. The feedback we have received both after the session and in the hallways was very positive and people were very impressed by the structured, thorough and consist nature of the work that is being delivered. Unfortunately the audio connection with Jeremy Malcolm did not work out so there was no presentation on intermediary liability. In several **Joint session CCWP HR – GAC WG HRIL** https://meetings.icann.org/en/marrakech55/schedule/tue-gac-hril-ccwp Audio Stream: https://meetings.icann.org/en/marrakech55/schedule/tue-gac-hril-ccwp/ac-gac-... Transcript: https://meetings.icann.org/en/marrakech55/schedule/tue-gac-hril-ccwp/transcr... The joint session between the CCWP HR and the GAC WG HRIL unfortunately coincided with a very crucial moment in the development of the GAC communiqué vis-a-vis the CCWG accountability proposal. The GAC had just decided it would go for a short break, and would continue drafting through the evening and into the night. Therefor the attendance of the joint session by governments was not as big as we hoped, but the engagement with the government representatives present as well as the GAC working group co-chairs was very constructive. Marília , Motoko, Tatiana and Aarti provided a great overview of our work and our initial thoughts about possible ways forward. The GAC WG repeatedly expressed their appreciation of the work, as well as the commitment to continue communication, collaboration and coordination in the work ahead. Currently the CAG WG on HRIL is deciding on its work plan for the coming time. **Meeting with staff** After running into Theresa Swineheart in the hallways and shortly discussing human rights with her, I received an invitation to discuss a coordination of human rights work with the staff. Because this was an explicit ask we made to Nigel Hikson in our previous calls I thought this would be a good opportunity, and asked Tatiana and Motoko to join me in this meeting. The meeting was attended by Samantha Eisner from ICANN’s general council’s office, Nora Abusita, Theresa Swineheart and Elizabeth Andrews. Elizabeth Andrews will be ICANN’s staff main contact point for human rights issues. After brief introductions, we established the significance and importance of having the CCWP HR as a forum of convergence and discussion on human rights issues, that are now mushrooming all over ICANN. For ICANN staff is was crucial that the discussions in WS2 are reflective of community discussions. The board will also be engaging in Workstream two, and it was reiterated that it is crucial to remain within ICANN's mission and scope. Nonetheless, the concrete development of work is taking place in the PDPs and the CCWG on accountability. It is of importance that we are focused on the importance of not duplicating efforts, and keeping each other informed. This could pre-empt misunderstandings and concerns that live in different parts of the community. We concluded that Liz will be the future point of contact. And the CCWP aims to improve her visibility and communication with the community as we also discussed in our last CCWP HR call. Finally, in this meeting as well as in the CCWG face-to-face meeting there seems to be quite some gusto for the human rights impact assessment to first understand what are the concrete issues at hand. It was also observed by Samantha that corporate practices need a different analysis than a rights impact analysis during the PDP process. We suggested we would also look at the risk framework that is currently being developed to analyze ICANNs rights impact. The CFO and staff seemed interested by this idea. Theresa will be responsible for the human rights work in WorkStream two, Elisabeth will be our point of contact and Samantha will provide all the legal assessments needed. All reiterated they are were open and ready to engage withthe community. **Questions to the board** https://meetings.icann.org/en/marrakech55/schedule/tue-board-ncsg Audio Stream: https://meetings.icann.org/en/marrakech55/schedule/tue-board-ncsg/audio-boar... We agreed in the NCSG to ask the following questions to the board concerning human rights: In the CCWP HR we've been working on the preparation for a human rights policy for ICANN, which would be needed to live up to the commitment to human rights which is proposed in the CCWG report. How does the board envision a process for the development of a human rights policy for ICANN ? Will there be dedicated ICANN staff working on the development of a human rights policy who could also function as a focal point on human rights? And if so, who will this be? Will making a human rights statement by the board be part of this, as suggested by the board in your comments to the 3rd draft report of the CCWG on Accountability? You can find the full recording above (transcript not yet available), but the the board reaffirmed its commitment to work on human rights; it nonetheless did not prepare a board human rights statement for this meeting but is still intending to do so. The response to the questions by different board members showed a constructive attitude but also different perspectives held by different members of the board. **CCWG Accountability Report passed** As you all probably know, all constituencies have approved the report produced by the CCWG on accountability, in the mean time the board has also forwarded it to NTIA where it is now under review and after which this will be forwarded to Congress. In the mean time the CCWG is working with ICANN lawyers on the drafting of the bylaws, as described in the report. Subsequently, we will start with the implementation of work stream 2 but the talks about this are still in a very early stage. Once the call for volunteers for work stream 2 is out I will make sure to post it here. As well as of course the draft of the bylaw language as proposed in annex 6 of the CCWG accountability proposal. **CCWP HR Working Session + To Do's** https://meetings.icann.org/en/marrakech55/schedule/wed-ccwp-human-rights Audio Stream: https://meetings.icann.org/en/marrakech55/schedule/wed-ccwp-human-rights/aud... Transcript: https://meetings.icann.org/en/marrakech55/schedule/wed-ccwp-human-rights/ccw... In a constructive working session we evaluated the current working methods, and decided that five subgroups was a bit of an overkill. So we decided to reduce to three thematic subgroups: by merging subgroup 1 and 2 into 1 research group, as well as sub group 4 and 5 into 1 PDP liaising policy group to support the important work that is happening, and will happen in the PDPs for new Gtlds, RDAP, WHOIS, and others. The subgroup 3 will remain focused on the CCWG Accountability work stream 2. This all worked great with the support of Maryam. You should have all been moved to the relevant sublists, if not you can subscribe here. https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/cc-humanrights-research https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/cc-humanrights-ws2 https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/cc-humanrights-pdp I would like to ask all the groups to rework their ToR and share it on this list before the next call. The notes I have about scope are: Research Group: - Continue Vizualizations - Map cases that make the link between ICANN and human rights - UDRP - Privacy & Data Protection - RAA - Whois - Trademark & Copyright Protection Mechanism - new gTLDs - Auctions - Geographical names -> volunteers: Monika, Vidushi*, Gangesh, Marillia, Aarti, Renata + members on the list, new people very welcome Human Rights Workstream 2 Group - Focus on human rights recommendation in WS2 - Aim to also grasp other issues such as diversity - Continue work on Human Rights Impact Assessment - Map Framework of Interpretation History - Engage with legal experise - Report back about the process -> Volunteers: Aarti, Matthew Gangesh, Milton, Tatiana, Niels* + members on the list, new people very welcome PDP Group - Provide research to inform PDPs - WHOIS, RDAP - new gTLDs - Auction proceeds - RPM pdp - Engage and report back, map how we can contribute and how it impacts Human Rights -> Volunteers: Renata, Vidushi, Gangesh, Marilia*, Monika, Aarti + members on the list, new people very welcome I would like to ask Vidushi (Research Group) and Marilia (PDP group) to get this work going and ensure we have a ToR and update sub-sites on the wiki before our next call. I'll do so for the WS2 group. **Calls** I would like to propose following call schedules: CCWP HR calls: 13:00 UTC 16:00 UTC CCWP HR Research call April 1, 13:00 UTC April 29 16:00 UTC May 27, 13:00 UTC CCWP HR WS2 April 8, 16:0 UTC May 6, 13:00 UTC April 3, 16:00 UTC CCWP HR PDP call: April 15, 13:00 UTC May 13, 16:00 UTC June 10, 13:00 UTC CCWP HR call: April 22, 16:00 UTC May 20, 13:00 UTC June 17, 16:00 UTC June 22, 13:00 UTC June 27-30 ICANN Helsinki. Please let me know if you would like to alter this, if not I'll ask Mariam to send out invites for this. **Conclusion** Looking forward to make the next steps in this important human rights work in ICANN together with you. Join the mailinglists: https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/cc-humanrights-research https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/cc-humanrights-ws2 https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/cc-humanrights-pdp and let's get to the work :) If you have any questions or suggestions, always feel free to reach out to the list, or to me directly. Also let me know if you think something is misrepresented in this mail or something important is missing. All the best, Niels -- Niels ten Oever Head of Digital Article 19 www.article19.org PGP fingerprint 8D9F C567 BEE4 A431 56C4 678B 08B5 A0F2 636D 68E9
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