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

[Benjamin Akinmoyeje]

The creation of alternate organizations or platform to try wrestle .ORG
away from ISOC and PIR  or the new buyers show the alternate forces out
there.
No one seems to be talking about the mechanism PIR is putting forward or is
it too late for them to engage the community now?

The major challenge now is how does ISOC win back the confidence of the
community and get a constructive engagement moving forward.

I personally find useful the context that Milton gave us about those behind
the new body, this helps to know.

Regards,
Benjamin

On Thu, Jan 9, 2020 at 10:34 AM Olivier Kouami <olivierkouami at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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