Letter from Senators+ on .ORG Sale

[Poncelet Ileleji]

++1 Milton,

Has to be driven by the community in all fronts

Poncelet

On Saturday, 4 January 2020, Mueller, Milton L <milton at gatech.edu> wrote:

> 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:
> https://www.wyden.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/122319%20RW%
> 20Letter%20to%20PIR%20ISOC%20Ethos.pdf
>
> Best,
> Kathy (Kleiman)
>


-- 
Poncelet O. Ileleji MBCS
Coordinator
The Gambia YMCAs Computer Training Centre & Digital Studio
MDI Road Kanifing South
P. O. Box 421 Banjul
The Gambia, West Africa
Tel: (220) 4370240
Fax:(220) 4390793
Cell:(220) 9912508
Skype: pons_utd


*www.ymca.gm <http://www.ymca.gm>http://jokkolabs.net/en/
<http://jokkolabs.net/en/>*

*https://www.netfreedompioneers.org/
<https://www.netfreedompioneers.org/>   *



*www.waigf.org <http://www.waigf.org>www,insistglobal.com
<http://www.itag.gm>www.npoc.org <http://www.npoc.org>*
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.ncsg.is/pipermail/ncsg-discuss/attachments/20200104/dbdfa5ec/attachment.htm>