[NCUC-DISCUSS] Berkman Center to review the proposal to NTIA

[William Drake]

Hi Stephanie

I don’t know if I’d go as far as to say this ‘ruins' it; Berkman’s done multiple reviews for ICANN over the years and they have a lot of people etc. they can put on the case, and in any event their input is just that.  But like Avri I did find the 'the only capable source’ framing to be a bit much…I’d guess that’s how NIST sells contracts for local consumption.

Who would you have advised NTIA to have gone with instead?  

Best

Bill


> On Mar 19, 2016, at 16:35, Stephanie Perrin <stephanie.perrin at mail.utoronto.ca> wrote:
> 
> Wow.  What BS.  What are the Europeans going to say about this? (let alone the Chinese.....)
> How could you take all that work done over the past year by a multi-stakeholder organization and ruin it by sole-sourcing to Harvard?
> Steph
> 
> On 2016-03-19 10:36, avri doria wrote:
>> fascinating.
>> 
>>>  the only capable source that can provide an independent review and
>>> assessment of a non-profit corporate governance structure designed for
>>> a multistakeholder setting
>> 
>> On 19-Mar-16 10:07, William Drake wrote:
>>> May be of interest to some…
>>> 
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>>>  
>>> Bill
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