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

[Evan Leibovitch]

>From what I can gather from what's been written so far, they're going to
demand ICANN to simply re-delegate the registry to them and leave ISOC with
nothing (though the actual proposal to ICANN may be different and indeed
include compensation of some sort). Looks like they want to make the case
that .ORG is a resource that needs a custodian rather than commodity that
can be tossed around at will. It's comprised of an interesting group that
includes ICANN's first president and the USG person in charge of handing
TLD control to it.

- Evan


On Wed, 8 Jan 2020 at 07:05, 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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Evan Leibovitch, Toronto Canada
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