Dear Niels May I kindly request clarification on the status of our inquiry into the (legal) effects that the HR commitment we are talking about is a "core value"? According to the new Bylaws "core values" are “guidance” (“should also guide the decisions and actions of ICANN…”) and are subject to a specific balancing and interpretation clause: "(c) The Commitments and Core Values are intended to apply in the broadest possible range of circumstances. The Commitments reflect ICANN’s fundamental compact with the global Internet community and are intended to apply consistently and comprehensively to ICANN’s activities. The specific way in which Core Values are applied, individually and collectively, to any given situation may depend on many factors that cannot be fully anticipated or enumerated. Situations may arise in which perfect fidelity to all Core Values simultaneously is not possible. Accordingly, in any situation where one Core Value must be balanced with another, potentially competing Core Value, the result of the balancing must serve a policy developed through the bottom-up multistakeholder process or otherwise best serve ICANN’s Mission." I feel this is quite relevant for our discussions, as it sets the frame of the effect of the new HR "core value". Best and looking forward to your guidance and apologies if I have missed any relevant message on this issue Jorge -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: ws2-hr-bounces@icann.org [mailto:ws2-hr-bounces@icann.org] Im Auftrag von Niels ten Oever Gesendet: Dienstag, 6. September 2016 00:19 An: ws2-hr@icann.org Betreff: [Ws2-hr] Proposed Agenda Call Sept 6 19:00 UTC Dear all, Please find underneath and attached the proposed agenda for our call of Sept 6 19:00 UTC. Also please find attached a rather advanced version of the document mentioned under agenda point 2, the summary of the Human Rights work under Workstream 1. 1. Administrivia Roll call, absentees, SoIs, etc 2. Discussion on: the Summary on what was agreed and discussed on human rights during WS1 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rwpw9aSAqboRO2_rNkjMVJPOmYwmdr5B1_M_aNMo... 3. Discussion on: Concerns on possible impacts of Human Rights bylaw and FoI https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KcKGRJjuhKEzCh2AZ8PPR_MofOQFBN8CMuJqTG_h... 4. Discussion on FoI draft document https://docs.google.com/document/d/1emqmzyB9_0vm6oKxhIWZ47L7lxcFKUBHVnkBYUOs... 5. AOB ICANN staff informed me that they are working on providing more real time collaboration methods, but currently they do not offer such services. So until that time I am afraid we are stuck with Google Docs. As always feel free to suggest addition or changes to the points above. Best, Niels -- Niels ten Oever Head of Digital Article 19 www.article19.org<http://www.article19.org> PGP fingerprint 8D9F C567 BEE4 A431 56C4 678B 08B5 A0F2 636D 68E9