[NCUC-DISCUSS] Reuters reports new cooperative formed to take over management of .ORG

[DeeDee Halleck]

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On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 5:50 PM DANIEL NANGHAKA <dndannang at gmail.com> wrote:

> I agree with you - Milton
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> On Wed, Jan 8, 2020, 8:42 PM Mueller, Milton L <milton at gatech.edu> wrote:
>
>> Oh, this is such hypocrisy. So Andrew McLaughlin, Mike Roberts and Esther
>> Dyson (who totally dissed the noncommercial constituency when they held
>> positions of power in ICANN are now coming to the rescue of the
>> noncommercial community by altruistically offering to take over an asset
>> worth $1 billion.
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>> Those people are _*not*_ our friends.
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>> This is an example of why we need to be careful how we react to this
>> proposed sale. This is just turning into a land grab, by which certain
>> interests (e.g. Wikimedia Foundation) are seeking to exploit the
>> controversy to take over ORG for themselves.
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>>
>>
>> Dr. Milton L Mueller
>>
>> Georgia Institute of Technology
>>
>> School of Public Policy
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>> *From:* Ncuc-discuss <ncuc-discuss-bounces at lists.ncuc.org> *On Behalf Of
>> *Wisdom Donkor
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, January 8, 2020 5:28 AM
>> *To:* NCUC-discuss <ncuc-discuss at lists.ncuc.org>
>> *Subject:* [NCUC-DISCUSS] Reuters reports new cooperative formed to take
>> over management of .ORG
>>
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>>
>> In this 7 January 2020 article
>> <https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/07/reuters-america-internet-nonprofit-leaders-fight-deal-to-sell-control-of-org-domain.html?__source=sharebar%7Ctwitter&par=sharebar> we
>> learn that, "*prominent internet executives told Reuters they have
>> created a nonprofit cooperative they are offering as an alternative owner
>> of .org.*"
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>>
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>> This would appear to me to pose an existential threat to ISOC, as this
>> nonprofit cooperative - whose membership appears to me to have more
>> political muscle than ISOC has - is not proposing to buy PIR from ISOC, but
>> to instead have the .ORG Registry Agreement assigned to it by ICANN.
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>> The full article is here, and I have extracted some relevant quotes
>> below:
>> https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/07/reuters-america-internet-nonprofit-leaders-fight-deal-to-sell-control-of-org-domain.html?__source=sharebar|twitter&par=sharebar
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>> *“What offended me about the Ethos Capital deal and the way it unfolded
>> is that it seems to have completely betrayed this concept of stewardship,”
>> said Andrew McLaughlin, who oversaw the transfer of internet governance
>> from the U.S. Commerce Department to ICANN, completed in 2016.*
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>> *Maher and others said the idea of the new cooperative is not to offer a
>> competing financial bid for .org, which brings in roughly $100 million in
>> revenue from domain sales. Instead, they hope that the unusual new entity,
>> formally a California Consumer Cooperative Corporation, can manage the
>> domain for security and stability and make sure it does not become a tool
>> for censorship.*
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>> *... The initial seven directors of the cooperative include former
>> founding ICANN President Michael Roberts, MacArthur Foundation
>> philanthropist Jeff Ubois and Bill Woodcock, whose Packet Clearing House
>> now runs the technical aspects of the .org system under contract.*
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>> *The new group has briefed members of the U.S. Congress and hopes to
>> prompt the Internet Society to reconsider the sale. But its best shot at
>> stopping the pending sale lies with ICANN, which can veto any change in
>> ownership out of concern for the security, reliability or stability of the
>> .org domain.*
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>> Best wishes,
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>>
>> *WISDOM DONKOR*
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>> President & CEO
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