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<p>Just some tiny detailed though meaningful changes I would like to
suggest : replacing "will" by "would" in all place referring to
the consequences of the sale, so to clearly show that we take it
as a conditional sale not as an irremediable decision. Plus some
minor suggestions of wording, placed in different color with the
part to be replaced in parenthesis to mean that what it as stake
is TRUST.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/12/2019 10:59, Ayden Férdeline
wrote:<br>
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style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span style="font-family:Arial"><span
style="font-size:11pt"><i>To: Gonzalo Camarillo,
Chair of the Board of Trustees, Internet Society</i></span></span></span></span></span><i><br>
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style="background-color:transparent"><span
style="font-family:Arial"><span style="font-size:11pt"><i><span
style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span style="color:rgb(0,
0, 0)">As members of a network which encompasses
many non-commercial organizations and individuals,
we are concerned by the announcement that Ethos
Capital </span></span><span style="color:rgb(237,
65, 57)">intends to acquire</span><span
style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span style="color:rgb(0,
0, 0)"> the assets of the Public Interest Registry
(PIR) from the Internet Society (ISOC), including
the .ORG, .NGO, and .ONG Registry Agreements. We ask
that this sale be called off. </span></span></i></span></span></span><i><br>
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line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span
style="background-color:transparent"><span
style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span style="font-family:Arial"><span
style="font-size:11pt"><i>Principally, we are
concerned that the sale of PIR to a private entity
investment firm (will) <font color="#ff0000">would</font>
significantly alter the Domain Name System and
weaken ISOC. PIR played an important role, as the
only remaining non-commercial top-level domain
registry operator, in serving as a counterbalance
against commercial exploitation. PIR ran .ORG, .NGO,
and .ONG for the benefit of its users, whereas other
top-level domains are run by private companies with
purely financial objectives. While the interests of
companies and users do at times overlap, they can
also conflict, and when this occurs there are
significant human rights implications. PIR, as a
subsidiary of ISOC, could be relied upon to do what
was best for domain name registrants, and has a
proud history of doing just that. However, PIR also
gave ISOC legitimacy and influence. It allowed ISOC
to take an active role in shaping Internet
infrastructure. In relinquishing its control over
PIR, ISOC would lose its ability to directly impact
how millions of people around the world positively
experience the Internet every day, and we think that
is a great pity.</i></span></span></span></span></span><i><br>
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line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span
style="background-color:transparent"><span
style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span style="font-family:Arial"><span
style="font-size:11pt"><i>We understand that Ethos
Capital approached ISOC with an offer in September
2019 and that an agreement had been reached to sell
PIR by November 2019. This secret process caught us,
and everyone, unaware, not just of the transaction
but of the urgency to divest of PIR. </i></span></span></span></span></span><i><br>
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line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="background-color:transparent"><span
style="font-family:Arial"><span style="font-size:11pt"><i><span
style="color:rgb(237, 65, 57)">We join ICANN in its 9
December 2019 letter calling for ISOC to be more
transparent about the proposed sale of PIR. We ask
that ISOC commit to publishing on its website all
correspondence and documents exchanged with ICANN in
relation to the proposed change in control of PIR. In
addition, we ask that ISOC commit to publishing on its
website any filings (including motions and petitions)
in the Pennsylvania Orphans' Court relating to the
change in status of the PIR.</span></i></span></span></span><i><span
style="color:rgb(237, 65, 57)"><br>
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style="background-color:transparent"><span
style="font-family:Arial"><span style="font-size:11pt"><i><span
style="color:rgb(237, 65, 57)">We expect an
organization that operates in the public interest, and
who promotes the values of openness, trust, and
transparency, <font color="#000000">to be coherent
with those values</font> (open and transparent) <font
color="#000000">when making</font> (about) major
decisions. </span></i></span></span></span><i><span
style="color:rgb(237, 65, 57)"><br>
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style="background-color:transparent"><span
style="font-family:Arial"><span style="font-size:11pt"><i><span
style="color:rgb(237, 65, 57)">This is a major
decision </span><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span
style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">that (will) <font
color="#ff0000">would</font> result in a
significant change, for ISOC and for the Internet
community, and it has been proposed a) without a
human rights impact assessment being conducted, b)
without consultation with impacted stakeholders, and
c) without appropriate safeguards in place to
protect the interests of .ORG, .NGO, and .ONG
registrants and the people who visit their websites
every day. </span></span></i></span></span></span><i><br>
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style="background-color:transparent"><span
style="font-family:Arial"><span style="font-size:11pt"><i><span
style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span style="color:rgb(0,
0, 0)">ISOC has successfully stewarded .ORG via PIR
for 17 years, gaining a reputation as a careful
manager of a resource that truly is the global home
for nonprofits and the noncommercial community.
Given this background, and ISOC’s stated commitments
to transparency and openness, we are unable to
reconcile the path that you have taken with the
values we (thought) <font color="#ff0000">trusted </font>
ISOC espoused. </span></span><span
style="color:rgb(237, 65, 57)">Accordingly, we call
upon ISOC to withdraw from its negotiations with Ethos
Capital, to withdraw from selling PIR, so <font
color="#000000">(and)</font> to honor its charter.</span></i></span></span></span><i><br>
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