[cc-humanrights] Last call for CCWP charter

[Patrik Fältström]

> On 6 apr 2015, at 08:29, William Drake <wjdrake at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> NCSG recently sent a reply to the Board Risk Committee request for feedback on Top 5 ICANN enterprise risks saying that "The first, overarching risk is if staff and leadership think of ICANN as an corporation with 'enterprise risks' rather than a community-driven global governance mechanism with global public responsibilities and associated risks.”  And here we’re saying that we think of ICANN as an corporation with enterprise social responsibilities, some of which relate to human rights.  So I guess it’s sort of the same argument one would make for Caterpillar Tractor or Exxon, except that the ‘product’ is policy.  I understand why CSR and the Ruggie principles appeal to people as an established ‘hook’ to say ICANN must pay attention, but somehow feel some vague discomfort with the ontological aspect.  Being on my first coffee of the day and not being a specialist in HR law I don’t have a clear vision of what the full implications of taking this down the CSR road might be relative to other possible paths, but if you all are confident it’s optimal then okydoky.

FWIW, I agree with you Bill that there is a risk here that the discussion focus too much on the enterprise thinking on risk when in reality it is important ICANN both take care of the enterprise risks (which is the responsibility of ICANN as the corporation leadership and staff) AND the risks ICANN as the community take in the development of policies and what not.

Specifically as, which I agree with, ICANN is more and more acting as a corporation and less as a community with a few strong PDPs that they host.

That said, I think we now do have something we all understand what we want. We just need to choose the correct words.

   Patrik

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