<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">On Sep 5, 2016, at 6:38 PM, Niels ten Oever <<a href="mailto:lists@nielstenoever.net" class="">lists@nielstenoever.net</a>> wrote:<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class="">...<br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">b) Seek to prevent or mitigate adverse human rights impacts that are</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">directly linked to their operations, products or services by their</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">business relationships, even if they have not contributed to those impacts.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">Interesting predicament. If one imagines the potential for an update to one of </div><div class="">the IANA registries that in turn poses an impact to human rights – i.e. following </div><div class="">the specific guidance from the appropriate community that is contracting with </div><div class="">ICANN/PTI for IANA services would result in an HR impact, then the above </div><div class="">proposed responsibility (to prevent or mitigate...) would suggest that ICANN </div><div class="">should to do otherwise.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Note that the event of ICANN/PTI acting contrary to the clear direction of one of </div><div class="">the respective communities (names, numbers, protocols) with regard to IANA </div><div class="">registry updates could easily precipitate a crisis that results in the end of ICANN, </div><div class="">and thus should probably be avoided...</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">ICANN (including PTI) needs to place the highest priority upon fidelity to the </div><div class="">outcomes of the multi-stakeholder process, since its existence is predicated </div><div class="">(particularly in a post-NTIA contract environment) upon the presupposition </div><div class="">of the validity of that process. This is also the reason why I noted that there</div><div class="">is a significant difference between application of HR principles within the multi-</div><div class="">stakeholder policy development process when compared to later on during the</div><div class="">policy implementation phases.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">/John</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Disclaimer: my views alone. Feel free to use, share, or discard as desired.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>