September 2014 - cooperation-wg

FYI: From the European Commission: human rights guidance for 3 business sectors
by Patrik Fältström 20 Jul '19

20 Jul '19

Hi, As you can see below European Commission just released human rights guidance for 3 business sectors. I have helped COM and specifically IHRB with their piece of the work, and I know others on this list have also helped. Everything from more formal support to extremely good comments that have helped making the documents what they finally ended up being. Patrik Fältström Head of Research and Development Netnod Begin forwarded message: > From: <entr-csr(a)ec.europa.eu> > Subject: From the European Commission: human rights guidance for 3 business sectors > Date: 17 juni 2013 18:23:09 CEST > To: <entr-csr(a)ec.europa.eu> > > We are pleased to announce the publication of the European Commission Sector Guides on Implementing the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. > > > Download the Guides here: http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/newsroom/cf/itemdetail.cfm?item_id=6711&lang… > > The Guides – for employment and recruitment agencies, ICT companies, and oil and gas companies – were developed over the past 18 months by Shift and IHRB through extensive research and multistakeholder consultation with representatives from the three industries as well as governments, trade unions, civil society, academia and other experts. Read more about the Guides’ development here. > > Each Guide offers practical advice on how to implement the corporate responsibility to respect human rights in day-to-day business operations in each industry through step-by-step guidance. At each step, they summarise what the UN Guiding Principles expect, offer a range of approaches and examples for how to put them into practice, and link users to additional resources that can support their work. They are intended to help companies “translate” respect for human rights into their own systems and cultures. > > Many thanks to all those who have contributed to this process. > > Best regards, > > > CSR Team > > European Commission > Enterprise and Industry Directorate-General > Unit ENTR.D.1 >

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Principles for a RIPE Proposal on IANA Oversight
by Chris Buckridge 24 Sep '14

24 Sep '14

Dear colleagues, The RIPE NCC is working closely with the Cooperation Working Group Co-chairs and members of the RIPE community to draft a proposal on the future oversight of the IANA functions. To assist in the process, we developed a straightforward set of principles based primarily on the discussions in this working group at RIPE 68 and on the working group’s mailing list. Feedback from the working group on the three areas listed below, on whether to express agreement or otherwise, and on any other related issues or questions is a vital part of this process. We would appreciate this feedback by the end of September. At the beginning of October, we plan to present a rough draft proposal to the working group for further discussion ahead of the RIPE 69 Meeting in London. Further background information, including a detailed overview of the NTIA IANA functions contract and a timeline for the five RIR community discussion processes, was recently published on the NRO website: https://www.nro.net/iana-oversight Best regards, Chris Buckridge RIPE NCC -------------- Background The Regional Internet Registry (RIR) communities have successful, long-established processes for making Internet number resource policy at the global and regional levels. These processes are defined as being open to all interested parties, transparent in their processes and operations, and driven by the community themselves in a “bottom-up” fashion via consensus-based decision-making processes. These processes operate at the regional level to create policies that address regional needs and interests. More rarely, they serve to create global policies regarding the top level of the Internet number registration hierarchy. These global policies are implemented by the IANA operator, a role currently fulfilled by ICANN. RIR policy development processes pre-date ICANN and the current NTIA IANA functions contract. The NTIA plays no explicit role in making or directing policy for the operation of those IANA functions relating to Internet number resources. The current processes and structures have resulted in excellent operation of the IANA functions relating to Internet number administration by ICANN, under policy direction from the RIR communities. 1. The following are priorities for the RIPE community: - There should be minimal operational change. The current processes for IANA operation and related policy-making are effective and allow for the participation of all interested parties. - Any new oversight mechanism should incorporate and build on the existing RIR community policy-making processes. - The RIR communities are ultimately accountable for the management of those IANA functions relating to management of the global Internet number resource pools, and this should be reflected in any new oversight mechanisms defined in a global proposal to NTIA. 2. A model for IANA oversight endorsed by the RIPE community should include the following elements: - ICANN has historically managed operation of the IANA functions well, and should continue to do so at this time. - The IANA functions operator must be answerable and accountable to the communities that it serves. The number resource community is represented in such accountability processes by the membership-based RIR organisations. - Funding arrangements to cover the staff, equipment and other operational costs associated with operation of the IANA functions should be transparent and stable. - Efforts should be made to maintain the IANA functions as a “bundle”, managed by a single operator. - This does not necessarily imply a single, central point of oversight authority. Any proposed oversight mechanism should reflect the legitimate authority of different communities for specific functions as they relate to number resources, domain names and protocol parameters. 3. RIPE community input to the IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group (ICG), which is responsible for developing a global proposal to NTIA, will be developed according to the following process: - Discussion in the RIPE community is centralised in the RIPE Cooperation Working Group. - The RIPE community discussion will aim to produce an output document by 1 December 2014. - The RIPE Cooperation Working Group Chairs will be responsible for assessing community consensus on this output document. - This RIPE output document will be sent to the Number Resource Organization Executive Council (made up of the five RIR CEOs), who will compile a single NRO input to the ICG. - A representative of the NRO Number Council will confirm that text compiled by the NRO EC accurately reflects the output of the five RIR community discussions. - The NRO proposal will be shared with the five RIR communities ahead of submission to the ICG. - Any global proposal produced by the ICG will be conveyed back to the RIPE community via the RIPE Cooperation Working Group to allow for discussion of any objections or concerns.

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IGF community impressions of the IGF
by Chris Buckridge 24 Sep '14

24 Sep '14

Dear colleagues, The RIPE NCC funded the participation of several RIPE community members at the recent Internet Governance Forum in Istanbul. We have now published an article on RIPE Labs, compiling brief interviews with three of those RIPE community participants on their experiences and thoughts on the event: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/chrisb/ripe-community-impressions-of-igf-2014 Best regards, Chris Buckridge, RIPE NCC

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Call for nominations: IGF MAG
by Chris Buckridge 17 Sep '14

17 Sep '14

Dear colleagues, Please note the email forwarded below - volunteers from the technical community are being sought to participate in the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) Multistakeholder Advisory Group (MAG). The MAG develops the programme and schedule of the IGF, and includes 55 members from governments, the private sector, civil society, and the academic and technical communities. More information about the MAG is available at: http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/magabout Best regards, Chris Buckridge, RIPE NCC > From: Elizabeth Oluoch <oluoch(a)isoc.org> > Date: Tuesday, September 16, 2014 5:58 AM > > > Dear All, > > Under-Secretary-General of UNDESA, Mr. Wu Hongbo, has issued a public request for nominations for the 2015 Multistakeholder Advisory Group, which will advise the Secretary-General of the United Nations on the programme and schedule of the IGF 2015 meeting. The aim is to rotate one third of MAG members. > > The Internet Society (ISOC) is coordinating a process leading to recommendations of representatives of the Internet technical community for the renewal of the MAG. > > Individuals interested in being suggested by the NomCom set up for this purpose are invited to read more about the process and to fill in a submission template by 1 October: http://www.internetcollaboration.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/09/20… > > Any questions or requests for additional information can be sent to: information.itcg(a)gmail.com. > > Useful links: > IGF website: http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/ > About the MAG:: http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/magabout > > Thank you and best regards, > > Elizabeth Oluoch > Public Policy Coordinator > Internet Society

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Key elements of the transition of IANA stewardship
by Richard Hill 10 Sep '14

10 Sep '14

NOTE: this message has been cross-posted individually to the RIR mailing lists dealing with this issue. Here are some things that appear to me to be key elements for the transition of the IANA stewardship. At present, the "RIRs are an interested and affected party of the IANA contract because IANA holds ultimate responsibility for allocated and unallocated IPv4, IPv6 and Autonomous System Number address spaces. IANA delegates IP and ASN address blocks to the RIRs on a needs-based approach according to global policies agreed by all the Regional Internet Registries (RIRs). The global policy development process is described in the ICANN Address Supporting Organization (ASO) memorandum of understanding. ICANN and the Number Resource Organization (NRO) signed this MoU in 2004. The NRO is an unincorporated organization created in 2003 as a coordination mechanism for the RIRs. The NRO fulfills the role, responsibilities and functions of the ASO as defined within the ICANN Bylaws." (This is a citation from the document at: https://blog.apnic.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/NRO-RELATIONSHIP-IANA.pdf ) The Mou between ICANN and the NRO is at: https://aso.icann.org/about-the-aso/aso-memorandum-of-understanding/ That MoU specifies how ICANN's ASO is constituted and provides that "Under this agreement the ICANN Board will ratify proposed global policies in accordance with the Global Policy Development Process, using review procedures as determined by ICANN." Thus, the ICANN Board has ultimate responsibility for IP address policies. This is consistent with the ICANN Bylaws. Up to now, under the IANA functions contract with the NTIA, ICANN was clearly bound to defer to the RIRs for what concerns IP address policies. If there is no contract between ICANN and some external entity, then ICANN would have unrestricted ultimate authority over IP addresses. That is, the ICANN Board could, if it considered it appropriate, override RIR policies. This puts too much power in the ICANN Board which, under ICANN's current structure, is not accountable to any external entity. It would appear desirable that the IANA functions should be contracted for by the served communities, that is, by the NRO/RIRs for what concerns IP addresses. And indeed the draft proposal presented by APNIC on 8 September 2014 envisages a Service Level Agreement between ICANN and NRO and also a non-binding Affirmation of Committments between ICANN and NRO. These proposals are found in the slide show contained in the web page at: http://blog.apnic.net/2014/09/08/iana-session-apnic-38-a-discussion-propos al/ But a non-binding Affirmation of Committments, coupled with a Service Level Agreement, are not the equivalent of a contract for the IANA functions. Thus, it would appear more appropriate to adopt the same approach that has been adopted by the IETF regarding protocol parameters, namely a Memorandum of Understanding (which appears to be a contract) between the NRO and ICANN for the IP addresses. The Memorandum of Understanding between ICANN and the IETF is at: https://www.icann.org/resources/unthemed-pages/ietf-icann-mou-2000-03-01-e n and http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2860 That text could easily be modified to refer to NRO and IP addresses instead of IETF and protocol parameters. However, item 4 of the text should be modified so that it reads as follows: "4. Agreed technical work items. ICANN agrees, notwithstanding any provisions in its Bylaws or other corporate documents that might be construed differently, that during the term of this MOU it shall cause IANA to comply ..." In addition, consideration should be given to adding a choice of law clause and a dispute resolution clause, presumably referring to arbitration rather than to national courts. There was extensive discussion (but no agreement) on the IANA Transition mailing list regarding whether or not the fact that a US court could, in theory, order ICANN/IANA to do something contrary to agreed community policies is an issue and, if so, whether anything should be proposed to deal with that issue, such as proposing that the entity that performs the IANA function should have immunity of jurisdiction, or that the entity should have redundant sites in more than one jurisdiction. If there is support for dealing with that issue, then some text could be added. Finally, and in addition to the above, article I.1 of the ICANN Bylaws should be modified to make it clear that it is the NRO that has the overall responsibility for the coordination and allocation and assignment of IP addresses. That change is needed because, at present, article I.1 of the ICANN Bylaws implies that ICANN has the overall responsibility for the coordination and allocation and assignment of IP addresses. Best, Richard

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RIPE NCC Report on IGF 2014
by Chris Buckridge 05 Sep '14

05 Sep '14

Dear colleagues, The ninth annual Internet Governance Forum (IGF) concluded on Friday, 5 September, in Istanbul, Turkey. Over the course of the week, RIPE NCC staff and RIPE community members contributed to many of the workshops and main sessions. These sessions looked at topics like the impact of carrier-grade NAT technology on users and policymakers, the IANA oversight transition process, cybersecurity and capacity building. You can find more information about the week’s discussions, and the RIPE NCC’s involvement, on the RIPE NCC website: https://www.ripe.net/internet-coordination/news/ripe-ncc-report-on-igf-2014 Best regards, Chris Buckridge Senior External Relations Officer RIPE NCC

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