After reading the letter signed by over 20 NGOs, I find it going beyond far potential price increases. The following are their listed concerns: -- The power to raise .ORG registration fees without the approval of ICANN or the .ORG community. A .ORG price hike would put many cash-strapped NGOs in the difficult position of either paying the increased fees or losing the legitimacy and brand recognition of a .ORG domain. -- The power to develop and implement Rights Protection Mechanisms unilaterally, without consulting the .ORG community. If such mechanisms are not carefully crafted in collaboration with the NGO community, they risk censoring completely legal nonprofit activities. -- The power to implement processes to suspend domain names based on accusations of “activity contrary to applicable law.” The .ORG registry should not implement such processes without understanding how state actors frequently target NGOs with allegations of illegal activity. If these are true, it seems that we have even more reasons to act. Kaili On Sat, Nov 23, 2019 at 3:56 AM Evan Leibovitch <evanleibovitch@gmail.com> wrote:
I am somewhat comforted by the observation that the Free Software Foundation and Electronic Frontier Foundation have signed on to the site, neither of which is associated with being corporate proxies.
I share your concern about ICA. However, at various points in history we've partnered with many different parts of the ICANN ecosystem and this time we happen to be on the same side as an organization we often consider as an adversary. Strange bedfellows indeed but why not?
I maintain my position that PIR should be given more leeway to set prices. That's not the issue to me. The change of PIR from nonprofit to for-profit has far deeper implications for trust that price increases will be reasonable and serving an interest beyond maximizing revenue. I had trust that a nonprofit PIR would treat the removal of price caps with prudence. I have no such confidence in a profit-maximizing PIR.
___________________ Evan Leibovitch, Toronto @evanleibovitch/@el56
On Fri., Nov. 22, 2019, 1:50 p.m. Jonathan Zuck, < JZuck@innovatorsnetwork.org> wrote:
I confess I’d be interested to see who is behind this site. The talking points are very similar to those with which we were bombarded by ICA during the original discussions around .ORG. Deep down, we ALL know that the only ones truly harmed by a price increase are volume registrants. It was you who suggested that a price hike might actually be pro-consumer. Let’s not lose site of all that because we’re pissed at ISOC. Let’s try to keep from being manipulated again and do a reasoned analysis of the situation.
*From: *GTLD-WG <gtld-wg-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org> on behalf of Evan Leibovitch <evanleibovitch@gmail.com> *Date: *Friday, November 22, 2019 at 1:41 PM *To: *Dev Anand Teelucksingh <devtee@gmail.com> *Cc: *CPWG <cpwg@icann.org> *Subject: *Re: [GTLD-WG] [CPWG] EFF : Nonprofit Community Stands Together to Protect .ORG
Have a look at https://savedotorg.org
Interesting list of signatories. Perhaps ALAC should endorse?
___________________ Evan Leibovitch, Toronto @evanleibovitch/@el56
On Fri., Nov. 22, 2019, 1:16 p.m. Dev Anand Teelucksingh, < devtee@gmail.com> wrote:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/11/nonprofit-community-stands-together-pr...
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