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

[Wisdom Donkor (via governance Mailing List)]

Thanks for sharing.

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On Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 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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