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

[Amr Elsadr]

Hi Sam,

I wasn’t opining on what is or isn’t the issue. Was just answering a question from Raphael (to the best of my ability) on what might have been somehow enshrined in PIR’s governing documents.

I don’t know what kind of bylaws or articles of incorporation they might have. In the ICANN context, however, I don’t believe they were (or are now) contractually obliged to manage the .org TLD with the public interest in mind any more than ICANN’s own requirements mandate it to do so. If anything, I always assumed ISOC carried out that role, and set that requirement in accordance with their interpretation of the public interest. Isn’t that the whole basis of concern with the sale? That this kind of organizational characteristic will likely change as a result of it?

ICANN itself has never set fixed standards for what it considers to be in the global public interest, although there seems to be an effort to change this.

A question of my own, Sam, if I might:

> On Nov 20, 2019, at 5:45 PM, Sam Lanfranco <lanfran at YORKU.CA> wrote:

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> The bigger issue, as an understanding with or without contract language, is that PIR was expected to manage .org in the public interest. The cap on registration fees was part of that strategy.

I was not aware of this. Do you have any references to this handy, because I don’t think it’s correct?

Thanks.

Amr
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