[CPWG] Sale of .ORG REJECTED

[Evan Leibovitch]

ISOC is going to need a lot of healing.
It was very divisive, and pitted senior management and the Board against
Chapters and membership.
And there's still the question of whether ISOC wants to divest of PIR
(which was never the focus of the opposition), but next time in a
transparent and accountable way.

As for ICANN ... IMO the issue is more complex.  To me this has been the
most important -- and most positive -- thing ICANN has done for the public
interest since I've been involved.

I reject the slippery slope argument that ICANN's going along with the
demand of its government overseer amounts to opening the door for ongoing
micro-management by California. It should be reminded that this is the
first time that the CA DOJ has intervened in ICANN's existence, it didn't
even get involved when ICANN abandoned public voting for the Board.

No matter where ICANN incorporates it will have a government overseer, so
moving isn't the answer (unless it's to a laissez-faire location like
Liberia or the Caymans). The system worked exactly as it was supposed to,
but in doing so exposed a significant and long-time flaw in ICANN
governance; it just doesn't consider the public interest in its decisions
as much as it should. This problem is structural, deliberate, and not easy
to fix; if ICANN is not to be accountable to governments, then to whom?
Arguably ALAC has a significant role to play in whatever transformation is
required to bring the public interest deep inside ICANN decision-making and
indeed culture.

- Evan


On Thu, 30 Apr 2020 at 23:47, Bill Jouris via CPWG <cpwg at icann.org> wrote:

> What will be most interesting will be to see what steps ISOC (and/or
> ICANN) takes to avoid getting into this type of mess in the future.
> Because whatever one's opinion on the attempted sale itself, or the final
> resolution, there's no real question that the process followed created an
> enormous ugly mess.  And, I submit, an avoidable one.
>
> Bill Jouris
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> On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 8:26 PM, Evan Leibovitch
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Evan Leibovitch, Toronto Canada
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