[NCUC-DISCUSS] Reuters reports new cooperative formed to take over management of .ORG

[Olivier Kouami]

Greetings from Cotonou

This situation become more and more weird to me.

Thank you Dr Muller for your lights.
Thank you Wisdom for attracting our attention on this.

I hope this story will end favor of the end users

Warm regards
Olévié KOUAMI

Le jeu. 9 janv. 2020 à 02:21, Carlos Afonso via Ncuc-discuss <
ncuc-discuss at lists.ncuc.org> a écrit :

> Ths story is in the New York Times as well:
>
>
> https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/07/technology/dot-org-private-equity-battle.html
>
> fraternal regards
>
> --c.a.
>
> On 08/01/2020 07:28, Wisdom Donkor wrote:
> > In this 7 January 2020 article
> > <
> https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/07/reuters-america-internet-nonprofit-leaders-fight-deal-to-sell-control-of-org-domain.html?__source=sharebar%7Ctwitter&par=sharebar
> >
> > we
> > learn that, "*prominent internet executives told Reuters they have
> created
> > a nonprofit cooperative they are offering as an alternative owner of
> .org.*"
> >
> > This would appear to me to pose an existential threat to ISOC, as this
> > nonprofit cooperative - whose membership appears to me to have more
> > political muscle than ISOC has - is not proposing to buy PIR from ISOC,
> but
> > to instead have the .ORG Registry Agreement assigned to it by ICANN.
> >
> > The full article is here, and I have extracted some relevant quotes
> below:
> >
> https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/07/reuters-america-internet-nonprofit-leaders-fight-deal-to-sell-control-of-org-domain.html?__source=sharebar|twitter&par=sharebar
> >
> > *“What offended me about the Ethos Capital deal and the way it unfolded
> is
> > that it seems to have completely betrayed this concept of stewardship,”
> > said Andrew McLaughlin, who oversaw the transfer of internet governance
> > from the U.S. Commerce Department to ICANN, completed in 2016.*
> >
> > *Maher and others said the idea of the new cooperative is not to offer a
> > competing financial bid for .org, which brings in roughly $100 million in
> > revenue from domain sales. Instead, they hope that the unusual new
> entity,
> > formally a California Consumer Cooperative Corporation, can manage the
> > domain for security and stability and make sure it does not become a tool
> > for censorship.*
> >
> > *... **The initial seven directors of the cooperative include former
> > founding ICANN President Michael Roberts, MacArthur Foundation
> > philanthropist Jeff Ubois and Bill Woodcock, whose Packet Clearing House
> > now runs the technical aspects of the .org system under contract.*
> >
> > *The new group has briefed members of the U.S. Congress and hopes to
> prompt
> > the Internet Society to reconsider the sale. But its best shot at
> stopping
> > the pending sale lies with ICANN, which can veto any change in ownership
> > out of concern for the security, reliability or stability of the .org
> > domain.*
> >
> > Best wishes,
> >
> > *WISDOM DONKOR*
> > President & CEO
> > Africa Open Data and Internet Research Foundation
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