[ncdnhc-discuss] Re: [ncdnhc-announce] ORG divestiture policy nears completion!

[Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law]

On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Don Heath wrote:
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>  From much of what I have gleaned, it seems as though there is a concerted 
> effort to draft a document that specifically would exclude ISOC.  ISOC, of 

Huh?  First I ever heard of this one!  Isn't ISOC "non-commercial and
non-profit"? So how would the current draft exclude it?  Or do you mean
the registrar people who oppose the current draft oppose ISOC (they don't
talk much to me anyway, so I suppose that's possible...)?

> Well, wait a minute.  Suppose a non profit organization decided to enter 
> the fray, they were selected, and then found themselves in a position where 
> the registrants voted out the senior management provided by the selected 
> organization.  I can tell you that any entity desiring to be selected as 
> the sponsoring organization for the .ORG registry, would be at least 
> slightly frightened by such logic.
> 

To whom *should* it be accountable?  (Assume "no one" is a bad answer).

> This is VERY exclusive and looks as though it was designed to fit some 
> organization that is yet to be formed!?!?!

Not everyone is as manipulative as the ICANN incorporator.

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