[CPWG] PIR/Ethos

[Bill Woodcock]

> On Jan 22, 2020, at 8:57 PM, David Mackey <mackey361 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Can we find out how many people in our group favour the sale to be stopped?

Stopping the sale is not my position, and is not wording that I think should be used.  PIR is ISOC’s property, and they’re free to sell PIR to anyone they choose, for any terms they choose.

What’s of interest is the delegation of the .ORG domain.  It was delegated to ISOC under specific conditions, which ISOC unarguably no longer meets, and it was not delegated permanently, it was delegated subject to periodic review.  They’ve triggered that review by their own action.  A clear and well-established process and precedent exists, and was exercised on .ORG in 2002.  My position is that ICANN should issue an open call for proposals for the delegation of .ORG, as in 2002, use the established multistakeholder process to review the 2002 criteria and approve them for re-use, or modify them as the community deems suitable given the long-term failure of the last selection, and use the established multistakeholder process to evaluate the proposals relative to the criteria, selecting the best one, and being very, very clear that it’s not property, and not subject to transfer outside of the open, competitive multistakeholder process.

This process is the process.  There’s no question about that.  It’s the only process that ICANN has ever used for .ORG.  There was never a notion that it would only ever be applied once.  The time has simply come to execute the established process again.

                                -Bill

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