[CPWG] Sale of .ORG REJECTED

[Jonathan Zuck]

Agree with your concerns. My STRONG preference would have been for the board to approve the sale and have the empowered community object to it and see where it went. I wasn’t happy with the sale either and, even more so, saw it as a chance to get some strong DNS protections in one of the contracts, perhaps reform PICs, etc. etc. Having the AG intervene early like this will always cause the question to be asked, what if.

From: CPWG <cpwg-bounces at icann.org> on behalf of Vittorio Bertola via CPWG <cpwg at icann.org>
Reply-To: Vittorio Bertola <vb at bertola.eu>
Date: Thursday, April 30, 2020 at 11:21 PM
To: Evan Leibovitch <evan at telly.org>
Cc: CPWG <cpwg at icann.org>
Subject: Re: [CPWG] Sale of .ORG REJECTED


Il 2020-05-01 05:05 Evan Leibovitch ha scritto:
https://www.icann.org/news/blog/icann-board-withholds-consent-for-a-change-of-control-of-the-public-interest-registry-pir

I think ICANN did the less bad thing it could do, and in the overall this is the best choice for all of us who own a .org.
At the same time, this really casts shadows over the credibility of the IANA Transition, and ICANN will have to think at how to better insulate itself from any direct governmental control. Starting from twenty years ago, a range of solutions has been proposed, from moving to classic neutral countries (e.g. Switzerland) to establishing a U.N.-style host country agreement with the U.S. I'm sure that many countries will raise this issue again.
Ciao,
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