[governance] Proposed statement on .ORG sale

[Sylvain Baya (via governance Mailing List)]

Hi all,

Please see my comment below (inline)...

Le lun. 9 déc. 2019 12:27 PM, Bill Woodcock <woody at pch.net> a écrit :

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> > On Dec 9, 2019, at 12:55 AM, Ayden Férdeline <ayden at ferdeline.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> By the way, do you have any .org registrations?
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
>
>
> Agreed.  I think we need to not lose sight of the fact that there are two
> classes harmed by the outcome of this transaction:
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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
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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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>

Thanks dear Bill,

Well said !

Shalom,
--sb.


>                                 -Bill
>
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