[CPWG] Fwd: Packet Clearing House warns .ORG websites to suffer downtime under Ethos Capital management

[Marita Moll]

Judith --  The downtime part might be speculative, but this letter does 
present some actual financial information on what it costs to run the 
system and the fact that a private company will not have access to the 
same stream of funds (through donations, tax deductions, etc.) that a 
non-profit has. In the absence of clarity and transparency, I find this 
letter and the information in it to be of high value. PCH has a 15 year 
track record with .org -- they have something important to say. If we 
enter into this debate, it must be on the strength of having weighed all 
the information available.

Marita

On 12/18/2019 9:59 AM, Judith Hellerstein wrote:
>
> HI Marita,
>
> I read this.  It is all speculative.  We just do not know. I think 
> these letters do more harm than good.  We just do not know the 
> answers.  How do we know that Ethos will not run PIR the same way it 
> was run before.  They may continue giving PIR the leeway to do exactly 
> as they have been doing.  We just do not know
>
> Judith
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> On 12/18/2019 9:37 AM, Marita Moll wrote:
>>
>> Some new information from the financial/operational side to be aware
>>
>> Marita
>>
>>
>> -------- Forwarded Message --------
>> Subject: 	Packet Clearing House warns .ORG websites to suffer 
>> downtime under Ethos Capital management
>> Date: 	Wed, 18 Dec 2019 12:40:00 +0000
>> From: 	Ayden Férdeline <icann at FERDELINE.COM>
>> Reply-To: 	Ayden Férdeline <icann at ferdeline.com>
>> To: 	NCSG-DISCUSS at LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
>>
>>
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> In this letter to ICANN's General Counsel, the Packet Clearing House 
>> warns that under Ethos Capital's management of PIR, "the decreased 
>> operational spending necessary for any commercial purchaser to break 
>> even would result in an increase from zero down-time to, on average, 
>> slightly more than three days without service each year."
>>
>> https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/correspondence/mitchell-woodcock-to-jeffrey-12dec19-en.pdf
>>
>> Best wishes, Ayden Férdeline
>>
>>
>>
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