[CCWG-ACCT] Fwd: FW: ICANN Board Comments on Third CCWG-Accountability Draft Proposal on Work Stream 1 Recommendations

[Eric Brunner-Williams]

Hello Bruce,

I'm writing w.r.t. Recommendation 6, pages 19, 20 and 27 of the 
14-Dec-15-Board_Comments_to_CCWG[1][1].pdf.

First, I agree with the Board's observations (p19, para1) that the work 
has not progressed sufficient to allow non-placeholder text to be 
inserted into the Bylaws.

Second, I appreciate the expression of concern (p19 and 20) that 
placeholder text may be construed by third-parties as having meaning not 
intended by its authors.

Third, I wish to observe that to the best of my limited knowledge, no 
body of law is directly applicable to the "skitter core" (a term we owe 
to the intelligence and industrious activity of k.c. claffy and her 
co-workers at the Center for Applied Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA)), 
which is where the global uniqueness of identifiers (names-to-addresses) 
is manifested -- something not contained by any one territorial 
jurisdiction, yet present in all (including .kr, which has AS131279, 
announcing 175.45.176.0/22).

This particular observation leads me to also observe that "the full 
scope of defined work on human rights should include consideration of 
impacts across all of ICANN's activities" is problematic. Whatever 
"human rights" may mean in the context of ICANN's core mission -- 
technical coordination of globally unique identifiers -- is the usual 
language -- it is unlikely that the same or even a comparable meaning 
exists for "human rights" within the contexts of the day to day 
operations of the offices in Los Angeles or Istanbul or Singapore, or 
the contexts of the Corporation and the Contracted Parties, etc., for 
which bodies of law exist.

With regard to the Board's proposal (page 20, C) I wish to remind you as 
the Board's liaison of the exchange of notes on the subject of 
availability of, and correctness of, resolution of globally unique 
identifiers to underlying resources, in the CCWG mailing list, in which 
the current chair of a standards body has opined that prior efforts by 
the Corporation, through its Board Chair and CEO could be described as 
merely effecting operational concerns, not asserting some general right 
of access to resources through the resolution of globally unique 
identifiers.

Finally, I wish to repeat the observation I shared at the Los Angeles 
face-to-face meeting of the CCWG, and many members of the Board -- that 
access to namespaces is within the direct control of the Corporation, 
and have been shown through the success of the .cat sponsored linguistic 
and cultural registry, the ccTLD IDN Fast Track program, and the 
expansion of the IDN Fast Track from ccTLDs to the 2014 new gTLD 
program, to have substantively advanced literacy and ease of use in 
(large populations) living languages. While not expressed as a "human 
right", the history of progressive support for namespaces and for 
identifiers in scripts other than the Latin script by the Corporation is 
a history of advancing a recognized human right.

Personally I'm not concerned if this work is undertaken in WS1 or WS2, 
as I'm confident of the Board's intention to incorporate some 
meaningful, and correct, statement concerning the core function of the 
Corporation and some human rights, such as the advancement of languages 
other than English among users of the resources associated with globally 
unique identifiers via the DNS.

Eric Brunner-Williams
Eugene, Oregon

On 12/14/15 2:49 AM, Bruce Tonkin wrote:
>
> Hello Jordan,
>
> Thanks for posting to the list.
>
> The comments are also available in the public comment forum at:
>
> http://forum.icann.org/lists/comments-draft-ccwg-accountability-proposal-30nov15/msg00011.html
>
> We had a half day meeting of the full Board on Thursday 10 Dec, and 
> then spent a few hours again with the full Board finalizing the 
> comments yesterday – Sunday 13 Dec.      That was in addition to 
> another half day meeting held on Saturday 5 Dec.   All dates are 
> relative to my time zone J
>
> Regards,
>
> Bruce Tonkin
>
>
>
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