<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">I would point out that SSAC is a Chartering Organization of the CCWg, with two appointed Members, who have been following our discussions and contributed where they felt appropriate. I would also point out that virtually anyone can join the CCWG as a participant at any time, and participate generally or specifically (on a particular effort). As such, the current structure can easily accommodate new or increased participation by SSAC or RSSAC, with regard to HR or any other part of WS2.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Greg</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Feb 6, 2016 at 1:27 PM, Eric (Maule) Brunner-Williams <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ebw@abenaki.wabanaki.net" target="_blank">ebw@abenaki.wabanaki.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Tijani,<br>
<br>
I'll respond to only one item in the WS2 issue set -- human rights.<br>
<br>
In my view, the SSAC and RSSAC each, for their own reasons, reasonably<br>
chose to have little direct involvement with the core ccwg-acct task,<br>
improving some aspects of the Corporation's means of accountability.<br>
<br>
Also, in my view, some who have contributed to the discussion of human<br>
rights have framed the issue as one of free-speech and/or open-ness.<br>
<br>
A framing of human rights limited to web sites (the resolved resources),<br>
or their names (the referant to be resolved) or their authors (the hoary<br>
old whois:43 problem), could exist unchanged were we to still be using<br>
hosttables to publish name-to-resource mappings. Restated, what the IANA<br>
Function comprises is not met by merely making policy w.r.t. speech or<br>
access, even when one considers only the naming infrastructure. We have<br>
touched on this through the Board's expression of support, as yet to be<br>
implemented successfully, of geographic and economic diversity in the<br>
Corporation's selection of contracted parties, also through the Board's<br>
more successfully implemented expression of support for referants (names)<br>
in languages which are not usually written in the Latin Script.<br>
<br>
You may have observed that the current Chair of the IAB and I have different<br>
views on what possible motivations lead to the statement by the Corporation<br>
that resolution of the .eg namespace would not fail in the then-forseeable<br>
future after all prefixes for Egyptian access networks were withdrawn.<br>
<br>
You may not have observed that some have argued that IPv6 alloctions be<br>
distributed by national sub-allocators, unlike IPv4 allocations, which are<br>
mde by regional sub-allocators -- the five RIRs which make up both the NRO<br>
and the ASO. The mechanism of national sub-allocation would present barriers<br>
to operators seeking to serve diaspora populations -- Roms in Europe, Arabic<br>
speakers in Europe, to take two well-known examples.<br>
<span class=""><br>
> If there is a reason for breaking the CCWG charter and taking some parts<br>
> of WS 2 tasks out of the CCWG-accountability, I would like to know it.<br>
<br>
</span>I suggest that the decisions of SSAC and RSSAC, not to take an active<br>
interest in improvements to corporate accountability, reasonable at the<br>
time, can be revisited in the narrower context of identifying those<br>
realized, and latent means of advancing human rights, within the core<br>
functions of the IANA Functions contractor.<br>
<br>
As I've mentioned, alternate point of view are available, and of course<br>
I've nothing to do with either the SSAC or the RSSAC, or any other Bylaws<br>
entity.<br>
<br>
Eric Brunner-Williams<br>
Eugene, Oregon<br>
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