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

Fri Jan 10 20:44:01 CET 2020

Thanks Milton for the extract.

It is better to lose with dignity than losing without one. ISOC and PIR
need to re-traced as regards .ORG decision.

Regards

On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 5:21 PM Benjamin Akinmoyeje <benakin at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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
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>>>
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