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

[Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro" (via governance Mailing List]

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.

I know PCH but I don't know "The Register".

On Wed, 18 Dec 2019, 12:54 pm Ayden Férdeline, <ayden at ferdeline.com> wrote:

> Sorry to send another email on this topic; I probably should have offered
> some additional context. *The Register*
> <https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/12/17/icann_org_purchase/> offers
> this description of the Packet Clearing House and why it is qualified to
> comment on .ORG:
>
> *"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."*
>
> Best wishes, Ayden Férdeline
>
>
> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
> On Wednesday, December 18, 2019 1:41 PM, Ayden Férdeline <
> ayden at ferdeline.com> wrote:
>
> 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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