[IRP] [charter] last round before Section 1 milestone

[Katitza Rodriguez]

Dear Max

As I mentioned to you by private email, I am not able to enter into  
the discussion of the chapter due to my limitation of time. I am also  
not attending the ICANN meeting for the same reason: I am busy and I  
cant deal with so short deadlines (and the discussions that leads  
after you proposed a revised text).

As Robert Guerra said it would be ideal that you engage any privacy  
advocate from Europe that could help you in this endeavor.

Kind Regards,

Katitza


On Oct 18, 2009, at 5:05 PM, Max Senges wrote:

> Hi folks
>
>
> As promised I have done a good overhaul of the draft. I have aimed  
> at two things: (1) consistency & consolidation and (2)  
> hypertextualizing
>
> Basically I tried to either flesh out important bullet points or  
> drop less important ones.
>
> Secondly I added thematic subpages and started to set links to  
> background info and references
>
> I would like to bring up the following more substantial editorial  
> changes:
>
> A) Pursuing our aim to create a compact text that focuses on  
> transposing Human Rights to the online sphere I deleted the rights  
> where we did not see a need to elaborate on how they are effected  
> and I propose to drop the following sections:
>
> Article 3 & 4: Security of person and Slavery: I think the points  
> listed here are correct, but they are so broad and in fact  
> acknowledge the paradox of clashing rights, but request all measures  
> not to fall into this most complex trap... My feeling is that these  
> articles are not very powerful as HR policy instruments, but rather  
> water down our text. --- Shaila do you want to comment/agree/disagree
>
> Article 11: Presumption of innocence: Again I think the points made  
> make sense; but are we really missing an argument if they are not  
> there?  Rebecca what do you think? Lisa i guess you originally  
> drafted these points
>
> Article 17: Property: There is no new aspect to that right on the  
> internet really, is there? Robert please agree or argue for your  
> point.
>
> Article 18: Freedom of believe: Again I am not sure as to what  
> degree the internet represents a new context for this right or  
> wheter it simply applies to online expression as well.
>
> ------------------------------------
>
> B) The three BIG Rights when it comes to the Internet: Privacy,  
> Freedom of Expression and (A2K) Article 27: Cultural participation  
> have all received very good input and need to be consolidated now.
> Could someone from the drafters (or someone like Katiza who hasn't  
> contributed her expertise yet) try to write a coherent and  
> consolidated version?
>    - Privacy was collabowritten by: Jac, Rebecca, Max --- @ Katiza,  
> Jan, could you contribute as well?
>    - Freedom of Expression was collabowritten by: Jac, Emily,  
> Rebecca, Lauren, Max
>    - Cultural participation & interests had input from Shaila,  
> Marianne and Shaila
>
> ----------------------------
> NEXT STEPS
> I would hope that we can get Section 1 to its first milestone (=  
> coherent version) really soon (before the end of the month). Our  
> next steps then are:
> (i) to reach out to experts like Wolfgang Benedek, who said he would  
> be happy to check that we do not speak legal gibberish and
> (ii) to reach out to our communities (local and thematic), spread  
> the work, invite people to join us. (As Robert Guerra pointed out it  
> would be particularly good to have more traditional Human Rights  
> experts and activists participate)
>
> Another idea we could consider is if it might be feasible to make a  
> Maker's style version of the charter for the IGF. Remember they use  
> very basic "human-readable" catch phrases http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2006/12/the_makers_bill_of_rights.html
>
> Ok everybody THANK YOU very much for the energy and thought and time  
> you invest in this effort.
>
> I think, especially with the prospect of having this hypertextual  
> charter evolve over time, we are planting an important humanistic  
> seed into the socio-technological soil that is the internet!
>
> Yours,
> max
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