<html><body><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><div>Bruna,</div><div><br></div><div>I share part of your worry but it is important that we recognize that we do live in an information sharing world, one where both true and false information can go viral with little warning and even less control. We have to take every opportunity, in the flow, to enhance the understanding of the stakeholder community, and the second/third/etc degree of separation communities. We have to take this as an opportunity to be a learning moment. Here is what I wrote as a Comment in response to the Devex posting from Davos:</div><div><div class="post-message " data-role="message" dir="auto"><div><p><font color="#990000">There
are many reasons to be concerned here, no matter who is the buyer of the
Public Interest Registry (PIR) that holds the .org registry contract
with ICANN. One that has been underestimated is that the current
proposed price of $1.13B USD is practically a multiple of the market
valuation that would be assigned to PIR’s holding the .org registry
contract if based on current revenues. That means that serious domain
name annual fee increases will be “baked in” into the sale at this
price. It also means that a the .org registry, previously held by a debt
free non-profit entity (PIR), will carry seriously indebtedness where
substantial domain name revenues will be needed to service that debit
and not be available to support beneficial public interest uses. While
the Internet Society (ISOC) has every right to sell PIR and control over
the .org registry, it does not have the right to engage in a sale that
encumbers the .org registry with a seriously burdensome debt and costs
to the .org domain name holders.</font></p><p><font color="#990000"> The sale requires ICANN Board
approval, be the sale to Ethos Capital or anyone else. A wise Board
decision would be to return to an open and competitive sale. ICANN has
both the right and the obligation to insist on an ownership structure,
and .org registry contract wording that protect the integrity of the
.org registry, the public interest, and .org stakeholder interests.
The choice to do the right thing, and do it right, in the hands of the
ICANN Board of Directors.</font></p><p><font color="#990000"><font color="#000000">Lastly, and this is sad, some comments from within the NCSG community are becoming increasingly uncivil and are beginning to look more like responses based on old wounds from long ago fights. There are enough substantive reasons to be concerned with the sale as it is now constructed. It is only proper to ask the Board to show the leadership that its position (constituted as the Board) is supposed to show, and do the right thing right. Likewise, none of us in NCSG should have a "private horse" in this competition and we should be both asking the Board to rise to the occasion, and we can help by suggesting the right high integrity things that the Board should consider. <br></font></font></p><p><font color="#990000"><font color="#000000">Sam L (NPOC/CNSG)</font><br></font></p></div></div></div><div><br></div><blockquote style="border-left: solid 2px #000000; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px">---- Original Message ----<br><b>From</b>: Bruna Martins dos Santos <bruna.mrtns@GMAIL.COM><br><b>To</b>: NCSG-DISCUSS@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU<br><b>Sent</b>: Fri, Jan 24, 2020, 2:37 PM<br><b>Subject</b>: Re: NGOs use Davos World Economic Forum Stage to Protest Sale of .org Domain Registry<br><br><div dir="ltr">I honestly just hope we do not end up regretting the amount of attention from Legislators and Government officials that this campaign is bringing to ICANN. <div><br></div><div>Bringing our subjects to the communities outside of ICANN is definitely important if and when we manage to properly explain the issues and things that are being advocated for within this community, but the way this is being done might truly be harmful to our model. (Hope I am wrong on this one) <div><br></div><div>best, <br>B</div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Le ven. 24 janv. 2020 à 17:33, Caleb Olumuyiwa Ogundele <<a onclick="return checkLinkHref(this.href);" target="_blank" href="mailto:muyiwacaleb@gmail.com">muyiwacaleb@gmail.com</a>> a écrit :<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>This is another blow and absolutely a bad global press focus on ISOC.</div><div>Perhaps, a time for them to step back and reflect.<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 8:28 PM Sam Lanfranco <<a onclick="return checkLinkHref(this.href);" target="_blank" href="mailto:lanfran@yorku.ca">lanfran@yorku.ca</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><div>Colleagues,</div><div><br></div><div><a onclick="return checkLinkHref(this.href);" target="_blank" href="https://www.devex.com/news/ngos-use-davos-stage-to-protest-sale-of-org-domain-96410">https://www.devex.com/news/ngos-use-davos-stage-to-protest-sale-of-org-domain-96410</a></div><div><h1>NGOs use Davos stage to protest sale of .org domain</h1><em>By <span><a onclick="return checkLinkHref(this.href);" target="_blank" rel="author" href="https://www.devex.com/news/authors/815508">Adva Saldinger</a></span> <small>// </small>23 January 2020</em><div><br><div><div><div><div id="gmail-m_-5767703317978455826gmail-m_-464994922802486045article-content"><p>DAVOS,
Switzerland — Plans to sell the .org domain to a private equity firm
have international NGOs worried that civil society, which is already
faced with a closing civic space, will lose its digital commons.</p><p>The
executive directors of 11 international NGOs released an open letter
Wednesday calling on the leaders of two nonprofits — the Internet
Society and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers — to
stop the sale of the .org domain.</p><p>For the rest of the Davos World Economic Forum coverage see: <a onclick="return checkLinkHref(this.href);" target="_blank" href="https://www.devex.com/news/ngos-use-davos-stage-to-protest-sale-of-org-domain-96410">https://www.devex.com/news/ngos-use-davos-stage-to-protest-sale-of-org-domain-96410</a></p><div><br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></font></div>
</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><b><font size="4" color="#33ccff">Ogundele Olumuyiwa Caleb</font></b><div><font color="#993300"><i><b><a onclick="return checkLinkHref(this.href);" target="_blank" href="mailto:muyiwacaleb@gmail.com">muyiwacaleb@gmail.com</a></b></i></font></div><div><i><b><font color="#666666">234 - 8077377378</font></b></i></div><div><i><b><font color="#666666">234 - 07030777969</font></b></i></div></div></div>
</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><b><i>Bruna Martins dos Santos </i></b></div><div><br></div><div><div>Skype ID: bruna.martinsantos<br></div><div>@boomartins<br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></font></body></html>