++1 Milton,<div><br></div><div>Has to be driven by the community in all fronts </div><div><br></div><div>Poncelet <br><br>On Saturday, 4 January 2020, Mueller, Milton L <<a href="mailto:milton@gatech.edu">milton@gatech.edu</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Kathy,<br>
I am not at all comfortable with asking the U.S. Congress to get involved in this. <br>
Are you? When Access Now called for Congress to get involved it was clearly due to their lack of experience and knowledge of the IG/ICANN space. We went through the IANA transition to liberate DNS governance from a single jurisdiction. If we call them back in then what do we say when the IPR interests ask for legislation regarding Whois? <br>
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--MM<br>
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Sent: Thursday, December 26, 2019 8:38 AM<br>
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Subject: Letter from Senators+ on .ORG Sale<br>
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Hi All,<br>
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Happy New Year!! I don't think this has been posted on this list yet. On 12/23, U.S. Senators Ron Wyden, Elizabeth Warren and Richard Blumenthal, with Representative Anna Eshoo wrote a letter to PIR, Ethos Capital and ISOC questioning whether nonprofit groups, free speech and internet users would be harmed selling control of .ORG domains to a private equity firm. It's a good letter that shows their staff did some in depth research.<br>
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Overview webpage: <br>
<a href="https://www.wyden.senate.gov/news/press-releases/wyden-blumenthal-warren-and-eshoo-question-sale-of-org-domains-to-private-equity-firm" target="_blank">https://www.wyden.senate.gov/<wbr>news/press-releases/wyden-<wbr>blumenthal-warren-and-eshoo-<wbr>question-sale-of-org-domains-<wbr>to-private-equity-firm</a> <br>
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Letter itself:<br>
<a href="https://www.wyden.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/122319%20RW%20Letter%20to%20PIR%20ISOC%20Ethos.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.wyden.senate.gov/<wbr>imo/media/doc/122319%20RW%<wbr>20Letter%20to%20PIR%20ISOC%<wbr>20Ethos.pdf</a><br>
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Best,<br>
Kathy (Kleiman)<br>
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