[governance] Packet Clearing House warns .ORG websites to suffer downtime under Ethos Capital management

[Ayden Férdeline]

Dear all,

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."

"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. 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."

https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/correspondence/mitchell-woodcock-to-jeffrey-12dec19-en.pdf

Best wishes, Ayden Férdeline
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