Personally, I agree with Niels that if ICANN.org decides by a vote of the Board of Directors to use Ruggie as an assessment tool and then presents those results to the SOs and ACs for further consideration in the policy development processes, that is fine.   Don’t know whether the cost of such an assessment would create a budgetary issue. I also think we should be careful not to create possible liability or evidence that would be used to support action against the ICANN Board/organization.

 

 

 

In the Considerations document, we also have language which tries to protect the role of SOs and ACs  as follows:

 

“When developing corporate or operational policies, and executing its operations, ICANN the organization should take the Human Rights Core Value into account. In order to do so ICANN the organization should propose a framework to the community, which should include multistakeholder involvement in its development, and regular review.”