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

[sana.ali2030 at gmail.com]

Bill,

I think that phrasing is reason enough to take issue, regardless of how capable Harvard is to carry out the review. 

Sana 


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> On Mar 19, 2016, at 11:46 AM, William Drake <wjdrake at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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…
>>>> 
>>>> https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=bfc9cbacbbeb27a0ff16b3bef68c8657&tab=core&_cview=1
>>>> 
>>>> Bill
>>>> 
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