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<p>Dear Niels</p>
<p>I note the SSAC report. I worry again that its recommendation
language calling for a Human Rights Impact Assessment,
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<div class="page" title="Page 2"><span style="font-size:
12.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'">"A Human Rights
Impact Assessment</span><span style="font-size: 8.000000pt;
font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; vertical-align: 6.000000pt">4
</span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family:
'TimesNewRomanPSMT'">is a process for systematically
identifying,
predicting and responding to the potential human rights
impacts of business operations,
policies, or agreements."
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has the possible consequence of inadvertantly trying to impose human
rights tests on agreements in the IANA function, especially as they
may apply to agreements (written or explicit) with ccTLD
operators. As I have said consistently in this process, this could
be extremely damaging on the operations and global acceptance of the
IANA function. Hence my concern about certain sections of the
Ruggie Principles being applied to ICANN - ICANN does not have the
luxury of choosing which parts of the world it may or may not
serve. <br>
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First and foremost, the first right of humans we need to protect is
having access to an Internet that is global and operates 7x24.<br>
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Best<br>
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Paul<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/13/17 9:12 AM, Niels ten Oever
wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">Dear all,
Please find attached the letter we received from SSAC.
All the best,
Niels
-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: Input from SSAC to the WG on Human Rights
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2017 03:12:11 +0100
From: Patrik Fältström <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:paf@netnod.se"><paf@netnod.se></a>
To: Niels ten Oever <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:niels@article19.org"><niels@article19.org></a>
CC: SSAC <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:ssac@icann.org"><ssac@icann.org></a>, Human Rights <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:cc-humanrights@icann.org"><cc-humanrights@icann.org></a>
Niels,
As chair of the Security and Stability Advisory Committee, one of the
chartering organizations of the CCWG on Accountability, we would like to
submit the attached comments as fruit for thought for the discussions.
Best,
Patrik Fältström
Chair of the SSAC
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