<div dir="auto">Packet Clearing House is run by Bill Woodcock and they have been extensively measuring network traffic and other aspects of critical internet infrastructure and are very very well known within the Tech and Internet community.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I know PCH but I don't know "The Register".</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 18 Dec 2019, 12:54 pm Ayden Férdeline, <<a href="mailto:ayden@ferdeline.com">ayden@ferdeline.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>Sorry to send another email on this topic; I probably should have offered some additional context. <a rel="nofollow noreferrer" title="https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/12/17/icann_org_purchase/" href="https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/12/17/icann_org_purchase/" target="_blank"><i>The Register</i></a><i> </i>offers this description of the Packet Clearing House and why it is qualified to comment on .ORG: <br></div><div><br></div><div><i>"Packet Clearing House is largely unknown outside technical circles but it is a key company within the internet’s infrastructure: it helps host the domain-name hierarchy's root servers and provides DNS for top-level domains using machines in nearly 200 locations across the globe. Critically in this case, it is also a key technical partner for .org and has provided DNS services to the registry for the past 15 years, even as ownership has changed hands."</i><i><br></i></div><div><br></div><div><div><div>Best wishes, Ayden Férdeline <br></div></div><div><br></div></div><div><br></div><div>‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐<br></div><div> On Wednesday, December 18, 2019 1:41 PM, Ayden Férdeline <<a href="mailto:ayden@ferdeline.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">ayden@ferdeline.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div> <br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>Dear all,<br></div><div><div><br></div></div><div>In this letter to ICANN's General Counsel, the Packet Clearing House warns that under Ethos Capital's management of PIR, "the decreased operational spending necessary for any commercial purchaser to break even would result in an increase from zero down-time to, on average, slightly more than three days without service each year."<br></div><div><br></div><div>"Many of the most important institutions upon which our society depends rely on .ORG domains for the provision of critical public services, e.g., UN.org, WorldBank.org, ICRC.org, GDACS.org, IANA.org, Wikipedia.org, IATA.org, ISID.org, and Mozilla.org. .ORG domains are used for air traffic control, containment of communicable disease, and verification of nonproliferation of weapons of mass destruction, among many other critical real-time functions. <b>Three days per year of interrupted communications for millions of not-for-profit organizations would unacceptably damage the stability and functionality of the Internet, and more broadly of society globally.</b>"<br></div><div><div><br></div></div><div><a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/correspondence/mitchell-woodcock-to-jeffrey-12dec19-en.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/correspondence/mitchell-woodcock-to-jeffrey-12dec19-en.pdf</a><br></div><div><div><br></div></div><div><div><div>Best wishes, Ayden Férdeline <br></div></div><div><div><br></div></div></div><div><div><br></div></div><div><div><br></div></div><div><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div>---<br>
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