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

[Tijani BEN JEMAA]

  Evan,

I do agree with all you said.

Tijani

Evan Leibovitch <evan at telly.org> a écrit :

> At the risk of rehashing...
>
>        On Wed, 8 Jan 2020 at 13:47, Alan Greenberg
> <alan.greenberg at mcgill.ca> wrote:
>  
>
>> - The deal will be good for ISOC. It gives them financial security and
>> gets them out of the Domain name business.
>
>      
>          Specifically, the deal will be good for ISOC's finances. There
> are numerous arguments that can be made of how the move actually runs
> counter to the ISOC mission and ethics.
>       
>      ISOC may not be directly in the domain name business but neither is
> it in the business of setting Internet standards. But it is in the
> resource-stewardship business, of not only PIR but also IETF.
>
>> - They believe that this will work out well for .ORG (and with the
>> recent assurances, perhaps they are right).
>
>      
>          Without the input from the community they had no way of knowing
> this, so it took a back seat to "It's good for finances".
>
>      
>
>> - If this deal is cancelled (or not allowed by ICANN), it is not clear
>> that there will be a replacement that puts .ORG in non-profit hands and
>> will be nearly as lucrative to ISOC - which implies they might have to
>> scale down operations.
>
>      
>          Again, finances. It's all about the money. Over community. Over
> ethics. Over mission.
>
>      
>          - Evan
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Tijani BENJEMAA
Executive Director
Mediterranean Federation of Internet Associations (FMAI)
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