[CPWG] PIR/Ethos

[Greg Shatan]

FYI -- On January 17, the ICANN Board stated in a letter that it will be
requesting further information regarding the transaction.  According to the
letter, the ICANN Board's deadline to approve or not approve the change in
control of PIR is February 17. For more info:

*Public Interest Registry, ICANN Extend Deadline
<https://newsalerts.icann.org/dd0PR1gN920Ev00R0M020C0>*

17 January 2020

*LOS ANGELES – 17 January 2020* – The Internet Corporation for Assigned
Names and Numbers (ICANN) and Public Interest Registry (PIR) have mutually
agreed to a 30-day extension of ICANN's time to review PIR's submissions.
Also, ICANN will be requesting further information from PIR. The agreement
can be found here <https://newsalerts.icann.org/DCh000N0ERv00901PN2R0d2>.

This is an update to ICANN's Announcement on 11 January 2020
<https://newsalerts.icann.org/G1R0E920vO0iC0dP0000RN2>.

Greg

On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 6:39 AM Bill Woodcock <woody at pch.net> wrote:

>
>
> > On Jan 21, 2020, at 4:13 AM, Holly Raiche <h.raiche at internode.on.net>
> wrote:
> > - whether it is more realistic to impose public interest requirements
> through contract provisions
>
> You can’t legislate goodness, any more than you can legislate smartness.
> If someone is determined to go into debt to buy their way in the back door,
> rather than put forward their qualifications for evaluation, do you think
> that telling them, in a contract, that they need to be good, is going to
> make them so?  If they were good, they could just demonstrate that, and
> then there wouldn’t need to be any fuss.  It’s because they _aren’t_ good
> that they have to go $1.1bn in hock to avoid being scrutinized.  You don’t
> spend that much money if you can avoid it by simply being good.
>
>                                 -Bill
>
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