<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Ayden,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks for the responses. I agree it is possible it could be seen as an indirect change, though I read it more as a situation where PIR were to outsource registry backend operations for example.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Re open tender - I’d personally prefer PIR remained as it were. An open tender process risks the potential for an even less appropriate operator winning the bid.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Kind regards,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Nick</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 4 Dec 2019, at 15:32, Amr Elsadr <<a href="mailto:aelsadr@ICANNPOLICY.NINJA" class="">aelsadr@ICANNPOLICY.NINJA</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Hi,<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Dec 4, 2019, at 5:24 PM, Ayden Férdeline <<a href="mailto:icann@FERDELINE.COM" class="">icann@FERDELINE.COM</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">This letter is not about halting the sale; it is about preventing the transfer of the Registry Agreements for .ORG, .NGO, and .ONG to Ethos Capital. The decision to sell PIR's assets is indeed a matter for ISOC to decide. If this is not clear please feel free to edit the letter to make this distinction more evident. Thanks!<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Nobody (to my knowledge) has suggested that a transfer of the Registry Agreements to Ethos will take place. This would make Ethos the Contracted Party, but by all accounts I’ve seen, they will still remain with PIR.<br class=""><br class="">But yes…, I do agree that this might qualify as an indirect change of control.<br class=""><br class="">The way that the letter is currently worded suggests that the NCSG will ask the ICANN Board to terminate PIR’s Registry Agreements, and transfer them to another entity.<br class=""><br class="">Thanks.<br class=""><br class="">Amr<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>