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This is exactly why I hope NCSG does more than a single letter to
the Board. In response to James, I fail to see how the opportunity
for good controls to protect the public in registry agreements or
otherwise has been "undermined." Such controls are not going to
happen at all without sustained pressure on the ICANN Board from
inside and outside the regular ICANN community. And right now,
nearly all of the pressure is coming from outside. So again, I
implore you: if you believe the sale of .ORG to Ethos Capital is
problematic, and that it presents an opportunity for changes that
will protect noncommercial registrants, then this group should
continue to ask the Board for an open, public process to shape those
controls, and to do it before the Board weighs in on the sale.<br>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Mitch Stoltz
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 1/24/20 1:53 PM, Sam Lanfranco
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2">I note that to date the
Board has not responded to the three
specific things we are asking for. Also, it has not
consulted with noncommercial registrants and it has not
offered protective modifications on the Registry Agreement.
We are
in the dark. The Board has also not addressed any of the
additional concerns (e.g. the legal structure of the buying
organization) that have come up over the past month and a
half. <br>
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