Letter from Senators+ on .ORG Sale

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My opinion is that this issue gives the community the excellent opportunity
to explore the powers of the empowered community. A thought I expressed
from the outset.

The congress letter signed by 3 Democrats? Personally, I would accept their
support yet not get too involved in what may have some unknown political
complications, or fallout, call it what you will.

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Rudi Daniel

On Sat, Jan 4, 2020, 04:49 Wolfgang Kleinwächter <
wolfgang at kleinwaechter.info> wrote:

> 1++ to Milton. A slippery slope. Next step would be to ask the UN to
> intervene. The better way is to follow the NRO approach. We do have an
> "empowered community".
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> "Mueller, Milton L" < milton at GATECH.EDU> hat am 4. Januar 2020 um 02:41
> geschrieben:
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> Kathy,
> I am not at all comfortable with asking the U.S. Congress to get involved
> in this.
> Are you? When Access Now called for Congress to get involved it was
> clearly due to their lack of experience and knowledge of the IG/ICANN
> space. We went through the IANA transition to liberate DNS governance from
> a single jurisdiction. If we call them back in then what do we say when the
> IPR interests ask for legislation regarding Whois?
>
> --MM
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: NCSG-Discuss < NCSG-DISCUSS at LISTSERV.SYR.EDU> On Behalf Of Kathy
> Kleiman
> Sent: Thursday, December 26, 2019 8:38 AM
> To: NCSG-DISCUSS at LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
> Subject: Letter from Senators+ on .ORG Sale
>
> Hi All,
>
> Happy New Year!!  I don't think this has been posted on this list yet. On
> 12/23, U.S. Senators Ron Wyden, Elizabeth Warren and Richard Blumenthal,
> with Representative Anna Eshoo wrote a letter to PIR, Ethos Capital and
> ISOC questioning whether nonprofit groups, free speech and internet users
> would be harmed selling control of .ORG domains to a private equity firm.
> It's a good letter that shows their staff did some in depth research.
>
> Overview webpage:
>
> https://www.wyden.senate.gov/news/press-releases/wyden-blumenthal-warren-and-eshoo-question-sale-of-org-domains-to-private-equity-firm
>
>
> Letter itself:
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> https://www.wyden.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/122319%20RW%20Letter%20to%20PIR%20ISOC%20Ethos.pdf
>
> Best,
> Kathy (Kleiman)
>
>
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