[Chapter-delegates] What's going on? As presented, the sale of PIR should be rejected by the Board

[Caleb Olumuyiwa Ogundele]

Obviously, you read my line of thought before I reposted that email.
However, at this point, fingers crossed. 🤞🤞🤞

On Sat, Nov 16, 2019, 12:46 PM dorothy g <dgdorothydg at gmail.com> wrote:

> I would have been surprised if he had said anything different. I know you
> did not feel reassured by this statement.  In terms of what is widely
> accepted as good governance, there are many wrong things about this deal
> regardless of the eventual pricing implications.' Reasonably' priced is
> open to vast differences in interpretation.  What is reasonable for a
> multi-millionaire who made it selling domains is not the same for an NGO
> with problems making payroll for its two staff.  Also notice I did not say
> the deal is illegal. I do not have the right skills to make such an
> assessment but it does warrant some fresh thinking about what would
> constitute a robust regulatory framework and in my view may cause people to
> look at ISOC very differently as we go forward.
>
> best regards
>
>
>
> On Sat, Nov 16, 2019 at 12:06 PM Caleb Olumuyiwa Ogundele <
> muyiwacaleb at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> So I asked ISOC CEO above the .ORG pricing. Find his response below.
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
>> From: Andrew Sullivan via Chapter-delegates <
>> chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org>
>> Date: Sat, Nov 16, 2019, 2:50 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Chapter-delegates] What's going on? As presented, the sale
>> of PIR should be rejected by the Board
>> To: chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org <chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 04:21:24AM +0000, Caleb Ogundele wrote:
>>
>> > The implication might see to the increase in the purchase price of dot
>> ORG
>> > domains.
>>
>> You might have seen that anyway, because ISOC historically (and still!
>> this deal hasn't closed, remember!) has relied upon the money coming
>> from PIR to support ISOC's activities.  The thing that actually
>> constrains wholesale prices in .org is its market, not ICANN and not
>> PIR's status as a non-profit.  And note what both PIR has said about
>> the topic: "Our goal has always been to make .ORG accessible and
>> reasonably priced – and that will continue under our new ownership."
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> A
>>
>> --
>> Andrew Sullivan
>> President & CEO, Internet Society
>> sullivan at isoc.org
>> +1 416 731 1261
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