[CPWG] A white knight on the horizon for .ORG?

[David Mackey]

I believe end users benefit from a model which has a long-term commitment
to an open and non-commercial internet. If ISOC does not want to be a
steward for PIR, then ICANN should be open to allowing a different
organization to perform this role.

>From the NYT article ...

"The cooperative corporation, which would run dot-org, collect fees and
distribute savings back to the nonprofit users, is an “alternative model
with a long-term commitment to the open and noncommercial internet,” said
Katherine Maher, a director who is the chief executive of the Wikimedia
Foundation, the nonprofit parent of Wikipedia.

“There are some things that operate better noncommercially, and that’s
O.K.,” she said."



On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 7:05 AM Jacqueline Morris <jam at jacquelinemorris.com>
wrote:

> Hi Evan
> Do you know if there is a monetary  value on this bid that is public yet?
> Will it give ISOC the endowment that it is looking for?
> Jacqueline A. Morris
> Technology should be like oxygen: Ubiquitous, Necessary, Invisible and
> Free. (after Chris Lehmann <http://twitter.com/chrislehmann> )
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 3:27 AM Evan Leibovitch <evan at telly.org> wrote:
>
>> Looks like Esther Dyson and others are forming a co-operative to offer an
>> alternative bid to Ethos:
>>
>>
>> https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/07/technology/dot-org-private-equity-battle.html
>>
>> It is unfortunate that the proposed alternative is yet another US
>> corporation, though the bulk of .ORG registrants are American so this will
>> likely be unchallenged.
>>
>> Chance of ISOC accepting to even evaluate this alternative bid without
>> pressure is slim given that many deals like Ethos' contain penalties for
>> backing out. But the pressure is certainly there, and not abating.
>>
>> --
>> Evan Leibovitch, Toronto Canada
>> @evanleibovitch or @el56
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