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

[Joly MacFie]

Is this the same Bill Woodcock that wrote on Nov 23*

>
> Overall, this is an excellent thing to be happening, since it gets ISOC
> out from under the USG, and deconflicts it from gTLD politics. So, very
> good for the Internet. I honestly don't think anyone's going to die because
> the cost of their domain name went from $10 to $12.


?

* https://twitter.com/woodyatpch/status/1198112895327850496

On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 12:34 PM Wisdom Donkor <governance at lists.riseup.net>
wrote:

> 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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