Letter from Senators+ on .ORG Sale

[dorothy g]

I agree slippery slope

On Sat, Jan 4, 2020 at 3:29 PM Poncelet Ileleji <pileleji at ymca.gm> wrote:

> ++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)
>>
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Dorothy Gordon
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