[article] The Register: Shall we strip price caps from .org, mulls ICANN. Hm, people seem really upset... OK, let's do it

[Raoul Plommer]

>
> Even if I was in favor of the proposal, I'd be appalled at this state of
> affairs and demanding answers.


Not disagreeing with this at all, nor did I want to sound nitpicking, but
we need to make our demands without any added hyperbola to make it
convincing.

I have to admit I haven't read through all 3000 public comments, but were
the arguments offered actually better, than the six that "won"?

After board reached its decision, the only way to reverse it, is through
the ICANN Empowered Community, as far as I know. I guess we need to contact
all the other SGs that opposed the decision and see if the EC process does
what it's supposed to. This case certainly seems to have the overwhelming
popularity to use it, after such impunity.

-Raoul

On Wed, 3 Jul 2019 at 17:09, Michael Casadevall <michael at casadevall.pro>
wrote:

> On 7/3/19 8:40 AM, Raoul Plommer wrote:
> > While I worry that there might now be pressure to raise prices on .org
> > domains,  I have to point out the assumption that
> >
> >     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
> >
> >
> > is not necessarily true.
> >
>
> This is somewhat missing the forest for the trees. Regardless of
> position on pricing caps, we have a situation where ~3300 comments were
> posted almost entirely against this change, and the justification made
> by ICANN org to plow ahead at best seems weak.
>
> Even if you're in favor of removing the price cap, what does it say when
> the stakeholder community is drastically opposed to something, and it
> gets pushed through anyway without an overriding legal demand or similar?
>
> Even if I was in favor of the proposal, I'd be appalled at this state of
> affairs and demanding answers. I am not certain what options NCSG has a
> whole, but I will be very uncomfortable if the conversations dies and
> this ultimately goes uncontested.
> Michael
>
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