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<div style="direction: ltr;">Respectfully, Greg, I think it’s long past time to stop attributing the widespread uproar about the .org fiasco on alleged ‘domainer handiwork’. Much more constructive in my opinion to focus on the issues and find common ground
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<div style="direction: ltr;">Zak Muscovitch</div>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [CPWG] [GTLD-WG] thorough chronology of the</font>
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<div dir="auto">This is written in a very slanted and somewhat alarmist manner, although the chronology is (mostly) correct. There’s a heavy reliance on domainers and their (direct and indirect) handiwork, which contributes to the overheated tone and rush to
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<div dir="auto">This is useful as a timeline. I’d advise adding other sources and a critical eye to understand the facts.</div>
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<div dir="auto">The sale raises some serious questions and concerns, and the optics suck from many if not most perspectives. But we need to know more before arriving at our conclusions.</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="x_gmail_attr">On Thu, Nov 28, 2019 at 3:16 PM Marita Moll <<a href="mailto:mmoll@ca.inter.net">mmoll@ca.inter.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Since I am trapped in an airport waiting hours for a plane, I am having more time than usual to research the info out there on this sale. This is an amazing chronology of all the things that led up to this crisis
by Sam Klein, well known advocate for free universal access to knowledge and tools and veteran wikipedian.<br>
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<p><a href="http://blogs.harvard.edu/sj/2019/11/23/a-tale-of-icann-and-regulatory-capture-the-dot-org-heist/" target="_blank">http://blogs.harvard.edu/sj/2019/11/23/a-tale-of-icann-and-regulatory-capture-the-dot-org-heist/</a></p>
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