The World's Internet Registries Demand ICANN's Records on .org Registry Transfer (circleid.com)
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The world's five regional Internet registry have an unincorporated organization called the Number Resource Organization, and they also all have representatives on a supporting organization affiliated with ICANN called the Address Supporting Organization (ASO).
This week the ASO "submitted correspondence" to ICANN about the proposed transfer for the .org registry to Ethos Capital, reports CircleID: This is a historic step as the NRO (Number Resource Organization) representing the 5 Regional Internet address Registries normally does not engage in policy matters related to the Domain Name System. NRO has made an exception, in this case, stating, "ICANN's handling of this proposal to be an important Internet governance decision, with bearing on the community's trust in ICANN, and the legitimacy of the ICANN model."
NRO's formal request: "As a Decisional Participant in the Empowered Community and pursuant to ICANN Bylaws section 22.7, the ASO hereby submits this Inspection Request to inspect the records of ICANN, including minutes of the Board or any Board Committee, for the purpose of determining whether the ASO's may have need to use its empowered community powers in the near future relating to the potential assignment of the .org Registry Agreement.
"For this purpose, the ASO seeks to inspect any ICANN records which pertain to or provide relevant insight to the process by which ICANN will consider (and potentially approve) the assignment of the .org Registry Agreement, including the process by which input from the affected community will be obtained prior to ICANN's consideration and potential approval of the assignment."
This week the ASO "submitted correspondence" to ICANN about the proposed transfer for the .org registry to Ethos Capital, reports CircleID: This is a historic step as the NRO (Number Resource Organization) representing the 5 Regional Internet address Registries normally does not engage in policy matters related to the Domain Name System. NRO has made an exception, in this case, stating, "ICANN's handling of this proposal to be an important Internet governance decision, with bearing on the community's trust in ICANN, and the legitimacy of the ICANN model."
NRO's formal request: "As a Decisional Participant in the Empowered Community and pursuant to ICANN Bylaws section 22.7, the ASO hereby submits this Inspection Request to inspect the records of ICANN, including minutes of the Board or any Board Committee, for the purpose of determining whether the ASO's may have need to use its empowered community powers in the near future relating to the potential assignment of the .org Registry Agreement.
"For this purpose, the ASO seeks to inspect any ICANN records which pertain to or provide relevant insight to the process by which ICANN will consider (and potentially approve) the assignment of the .org Registry Agreement, including the process by which input from the affected community will be obtained prior to ICANN's consideration and potential approval of the assignment."
The ASO submitted correspondence... (Score:2)
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Maybe he really meant DEFCON 4. I can't really tell, but re-reading his post, I assume this is a possibility. The OP is welcome to clarify after the doubt you have introduced.
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Very good for you to have replied! Another poster below had mentioned something similar. Thanks to both of you for enlightening me on the topic.
Re:The ASO submitted correspondence... (Score:5, Interesting)
Yeah. This is more like 1.
If I understand it correctly, they have the right to call for a "community forum", in which they vote to decide whether the transfer happens or not. This is apparently reserved for situations where they have serious concerns about a transfer.
It's getting real.
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I think you might have your understanding backwards. DEFCON 1 is the most severe whereas 5 is considered normal. For reference, when 9/11 happened, the US went up to DEFCON 3 before rolling down to DEFCON 4 just three days later. The only times we've even hit DEFCON 2 were the Cuban Missile Crisis and the start of the Persian Gulf War, and we've never hit DEFCON 1, since that's more or less reserved for nuclear war, either imminent (more so than the Cuban Missile Crisis apparently) or ongoing.
This situation
Ooooo (Score:3)
The World's Internet Registries Demand ICANN's Records on .org Registry Transfer
Somebody's in trouuuuble.
They're definitely getting sent to their Internet room, w/o any Internet supper, to think about what they did until their Internet Dad comes home.
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Re:Ooooo (Score:4, Informative)
Oh... (Score:2)
Oh I long for the days when my worldnic handle meant something... ... the tubes are dead.
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Oh I long for the days when my worldnic handle meant something... ... the tubes are dead.
Jesus, I'm old. I forgot all about having a worldnic handle back in the day.
I imagine I still have it, but I have no idea what it was (is).
Busted (Score:2)
Now everyone wants to look at your board minutes. To bad you didn't get the .org domains transferred to your friends company.
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Big talk from someone who can't even log on.