<html><head></head><body style="zoom: 0%;"><div dir="auto">Hello Ayden & All, <br><br></div>
<div dir="auto">in some instances, defending the public interest through the corporation's policy process (PDP) proved insufficient, and would have required action on a larger scale. <br><br></div>
<div dir="auto">This seems to be one of those instances, if the referenced article is accurate. <br><br></div>
<div dir="auto">In addition to the PDP, perhaps ALAC, NCSG, NCUC and other entities, inside and outside ICANN, could now raise the question of the public interest, in consultation with, say, ACLU. If ICANN is beholden to industry or other Interests, then accountability must be sought at a higher level. <br><br></div>
<div dir="auto">Jean-Jacques Subrenat.<br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote" >Le 2 juil. 2019, à 00:52, "Ayden Férdeline" <<a href="mailto:icann@ferdeline.com" target="_blank">icann@ferdeline.com</a>> a écrit:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div>This article is a must-read. While it is hardly a secret that ICANN is unaccountable and captured by industry, this decision is shocking even by the low standards we hold ICANN to:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/07/01/org_domain_icann/">https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/07/01/org_domain_icann/</a><br></div><div><br></div><div id="protonmail_mobile_signature_block"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">The price caps have been taken off .org domains, meaning that more than 10 million largely non-profit organizations will end up paying more for their online presence each year ...</span></div><div id="protonmail_mobile_signature_block"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><br></span></div><div id="protonmail_mobile_signature_block"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Over 3,300 comments – a huge number given that ICANN's public comment periods rarely attract more than 50 – were sent and were overwhelmingly against the price caps being removed. One study noted that over 98 per cent of comments were explicitly opposed</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> to the change. Just six supported lifting the caps, all from industry lobbyists. ...</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><br></span></div><div id="protonmail_mobile_signature_block"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><br></span></div><div id="protonmail_mobile_signature_block"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">The fact that ICANN signed a new contract with such far-reaching consequences despite having carried out no economic analysis, despite thousands of comments opposing the change, and then did so without an explanation, or public discussion, or a Board resolution, is indicative of an organization that can, and does, act in its own interests and with impunity, despite the fact its oversees a vast public resource and claims to be acting in the public interest. </span><br></div></blockquote></div></body></html>