[CPWG] Fwd: [NCUC-DISCUSS] ICANN Receives Letter from California Attorney General Regarding .ORG Change of Control

[David Mackey]

Thanks for sharing the information Marita.

You know, it's a little funny. I don't remember seeing the California's
Attorney General in the picture that Olivier shared with us a few days ago.

It's possible that important issues on Internet Governance are so
disconnected from the average end user that they have no clue what happens
between Internet leadership organizations like ICANN and iSOC.

This disconnection of knowledge might allow for funny behaviour motivated
by financial gain for some insiders which adds no value to end users, but
increases risk to a stable Internet by introducing financial leverage which
didn't exist before an unnecessary financial transaction.

Since iSOC has chosen a process which takes advantage of the disconnect
with the public (end users), it would be nice to see ICANN make a
principled decision based on an open multistakeholder process. The failure
of an open and effective multistakeholder process invites other people to
the table, like California's Attorney General for instance.

Within ICANN, we also have our At-Large community. Having received the
great training at ATLAS III about how the multistakeholder process is
supposed to work, I wonder if the reality of the At-Large consensus
building process is also severely disconnected from the ideal process that
was taught at ICANN66. Unfortunately, the .ORG transfer seems to be
pressing the fault lines of a public test of consensus withinin At-Large.
This is a different problem from the .ORG transfer issue itself.

Just a thought or two. :-)

Cheers!
David

On Fri, Jan 31, 2020 at 4:53 PM Marita Moll <mmoll at ca.inter.net> wrote:

> Attached for your information, letter to ICANN from the California AG.
> ICANN has is now seeking a deadline extention from PIR  in order to reply
> to the 35 questions posed by the State of California re the proposed sale.
> Marita
>
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> Subject: [NCUC-DISCUSS] ICANN Receives Letter from California Attorney
> General Regarding .ORG Change of Control
> Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2020 12:58:57 -0200
> From: Bruna Martins dos Santos <bruna.mrtns at gmail.com>
> <bruna.mrtns at gmail.com>
> To: NCUC Discuss <ncuc-discuss at lists.ncuc.org>
> <ncuc-discuss at lists.ncuc.org>
>
> Dear NCUC,
>
> FYI
>
> During this morning, at the NCSG call with Board Member Matthew Shears, he
> mentioned that the Office of the Attorney General of the State of
> California has requested information from ICANN regarding the PIR deal. The
> correspondence
> <https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/correspondence/ca-ago-to-icann-board-23jan20-en.pdf>
> asks a set of 35 questions/requests to ICANN, from organizational matters,
> ICANNs capacity to regulate the registration fees and so on.
>
> Icann also issued a blog post
> <https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2020-01-30-en> explaining that
> they are also
>
>
> *"providing formal notice to PIR, pursuant to the terms of the PIR
> Registry Agreements, because the CA-AGO has requested that ICANN provide
> information that PIR designated as confidential. In addition, the CA-AGO
> has asked for more time, surpassing the current ICANN deadline to review
> the proposed change of control of the PIR Registry Agreements that is
> currently set as 17 February 2020. Accordingly, the letter from ICANN to
> PIR requests additional time, up to 20 April 2020, to conclude both the
> CA-AGO and ICANN reviews." *
> Best regards,
>
> --
> *Bruna Martins dos Santos *
>
> Skype ID: bruna.martinsantos
> @boomartins
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