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

[Stephanie Perrin]

I would have done a call for proposals, and I would have favored in my 
assessment criteria a university consortium from a range of countries 
that had Internet governance experience and strong academic credentials, 
with economic (market) and civil society participation.
Not that hard to do....they blew it.  The European Commission does this 
kind of tendering all the time.....they would know better, I suspect, 
than to sole source this one.  Too important.
Not that Berkman is per se bad....just US based and an ICANN regular.
steph

On 2016-03-19 11:46, William Drake 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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