<div dir="auto"><div>Hi all,</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Please see my comment below (inline)...<br><br><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Le lun. 9 déc. 2019 12:27 PM, Bill Woodcock <<a href="mailto:woody@pch.net">woody@pch.net</a>> a écrit :<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
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> On Dec 9, 2019, at 12:55 AM, Ayden Férdeline <<a href="mailto:ayden@ferdeline.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">ayden@ferdeline.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> By the way, do you have any .org registrations?<br>
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> With respect, what is the relevance of that question? I have no financial interest here. I have nothing to lose (directly) from the sale of PIR to Ethos Capital, and I have nothing to gain.<br>
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> Indirectly, of course, I have much to lose as a non-commercial user of the Domain Name System from the Domain Name System being more commercialized. As we all do.<br>
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Agreed. I think we need to not lose sight of the fact that there are two classes harmed by the outcome of this transaction:<br>
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1) .ORG registrants, whose interests are being involuntarily converted to a private benefit, without compensation, and with future expense in both money and down-time, and<br>
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2) The entire Internet community, inasmuch as everyone else is also dependent upon the uptime and financial stability of nonprofits like Wikipedia, Mozilla, the Red Cross, etc.<br>
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In an Internet that’s normally governed in a multistakeholder fashion, both of these constituencies would be well-represented. In a unilateral privatization of a public good, there is no multistakeholder voice representing the nonprofit and Internet constituencies.<br>
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Most of us are in the first class, and all of us are in the second class. There is no one here who is not a stakeholder, there is no one here who will not suffer harm from the outcome, and there are only a handful of individuals (mostly not present on this list) who will profit from it.<br></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Thanks dear Bill,</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Well said !</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Shalom,</div><div dir="auto">--sb.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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