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

[Bill Woodcock]

> On Dec 20, 2019, at 9:17 PM, Joly MacFie <joly at punkcast.com> wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
> ?
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> * https://twitter.com/woodyatpch/status/1198112895327850496
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> 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 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."
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> Best wishes, Ayden Férdeline
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> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
> On Wednesday, December 18, 2019 1:41 PM, Ayden Férdeline <ayden at ferdeline.com> wrote:
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>> 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."
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>> "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."
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>> https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/correspondence/mitchell-woodcock-to-jeffrey-12dec19-en.pdf
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>> Best wishes, Ayden Férdeline
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