<div dir="ltr"><div>After reading the letter signed by over 20 NGOs, I find it going beyond far potential price increases. The following are their listed concerns:</div><div><br></div><div style="font-size:15.3427px;font-family:sans-serif">-- The power to raise .ORG registration fees without the approval of ICANN or the .ORG community. A .ORG price hike would put many cash-strapped NGOs in the difficult position of either paying the increased fees or losing the legitimacy and brand recognition of a .ORG domain.</div><div style="font-size:15.3427px;font-family:sans-serif">-- The power to develop and implement Rights Protection Mechanisms unilaterally, without consulting the .ORG community. If such mechanisms are not carefully crafted in collaboration with the NGO community, they risk censoring completely legal nonprofit activities.</div><div style="font-size:15.3427px;font-family:sans-serif">-- The power to implement processes to suspend domain names based on accusations of “activity contrary to applicable law.” The .ORG registry should not implement such processes without understanding how state actors frequently target NGOs with allegations of illegal activity.</div><div><div style="font-size:15.3427px;font-family:sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-size:15.3427px;font-family:sans-serif">If these are true, it seems that we have even more reasons to act.</div><div style="font-size:15.3427px;font-family:sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-size:15.3427px;font-family:sans-serif">Kaili<br></div>
</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Nov 23, 2019 at 3:56 AM Evan Leibovitch <<a href="mailto:evanleibovitch@gmail.com">evanleibovitch@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>I am somewhat comforted by the observation that the Free Software Foundation and Electronic Frontier Foundation have signed on to the site, neither of which is associated with being corporate proxies. <div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I share your concern about ICA. However, at various points in history we've partnered with many different parts of the ICANN ecosystem and this time we happen to be on the same side as an organization we often consider as an adversary. Strange bedfellows indeed but why not? </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I maintain my position that PIR should be given more leeway to set prices. That's not the issue to me. The change of PIR from nonprofit to for-profit has far deeper implications for trust that price increases will be reasonable and serving an interest beyond maximizing revenue. I had trust that a nonprofit PIR would treat the removal of price caps with prudence. I have no such confidence in a profit-maximizing PIR. </div><div dir="auto"><br><div dir="auto">___________________<br>Evan Leibovitch, Toronto<br>@evanleibovitch/@el56</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri., Nov. 22, 2019, 1:50 p.m. Jonathan Zuck, <<a href="mailto:JZuck@innovatorsnetwork.org" target="_blank">JZuck@innovatorsnetwork.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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by a price increase are volume registrants. It was you who suggested that a price hike might actually be pro-consumer. Let’s not lose site of all that because we’re pissed at ISOC. Let’s try to keep from being manipulated again and do a reasoned analysis of
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<b>Subject: </b>Re: [GTLD-WG] [CPWG] EFF : Nonprofit Community Stands Together to Protect .ORG<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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Interesting list of signatories. Perhaps ALAC should endorse?<u></u><u></u></p>
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