.Org Registry No Longer Being Sold -- But What Should Happen Next? (medium.com) 25
One of the advisors to the #SaveDotOrg campaign was Jacob Malthouse, co-founder of the.eco top-level domain (and also a former ICANN vice president). "Here's what needs to happen next," he writes in an essay on Medium:
As of today, the #savedotorg campaign has nearly 27,000 supporters and 2,000 nonprofits behind it. It dwarfs any campaign Internet governance has ever seen. There's no way to de-legitimize such an outpouring of concern... ISOC and PIR leadership must recognize and apologize for the harm and uncertainty that they have caused both nonprofits and Internet governance. There never should have needed to be a #savedotorg campaign, because dot-org should never have been put at risk.
Second, The ISOC board should invite the leadership of the organizations that led the #SaveDotOrg campaign to an open dialogue to understand their concerns and priorities for the future of dot-org. This dialogue should recognize that it may be agreed that ISOC and PIR may no longer be the appropriate stewards for dot-org... [A]ll parties should agree to work together with ICANN to chart a course of action that builds confidence and faith in the multi-stakeholder model of Internet governance. While there are many challenges with this model, one being how messy it seems, in the end the right decisions were taken.
We must all come together to defend the model that has built and will continue to sustain a single global Internet... Now is the time to think about how we can move forward together.
Second, The ISOC board should invite the leadership of the organizations that led the #SaveDotOrg campaign to an open dialogue to understand their concerns and priorities for the future of dot-org. This dialogue should recognize that it may be agreed that ISOC and PIR may no longer be the appropriate stewards for dot-org... [A]ll parties should agree to work together with ICANN to chart a course of action that builds confidence and faith in the multi-stakeholder model of Internet governance. While there are many challenges with this model, one being how messy it seems, in the end the right decisions were taken.
We must all come together to defend the model that has built and will continue to sustain a single global Internet... Now is the time to think about how we can move forward together.
Obviously (Score:2)
They should give it to me.
I'm at least going to pay it token respect while trying to cash out slyly.
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A Benevolent Dictator, like Guido van Rossum has always been for Python, wouldn't be such a bad idea actually.
I suggest we vote for apoc.famine, ID #621563
Re: Obviously (Score:2)
Re: Obviously (Score:2)
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I thought we were an autonomous collective...
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Found a non-profit (Score:2)
run a go fund me to make money to pay the board of directors.
$Profit.
Re:Imagine (Score:5, Insightful)
At least one mistake they made was believing it was their thing to sell.
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Imagine being the caretaker of somebody else's thing and trying to sell it off against the terms of your custodial agreement!
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Imagine the thing belonged to someone else and you willingly accepted (compensated) stewardship of it, then you tried to sell it off...
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What this has to do with being the stewards of .org is beyond comprehension.
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I wish you hadn't been modded Troll, because this is obvious satire.
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...because this is obvious satire.
Oh. Yes.
Satire. Of course.
Pay no attention to this pitchfork I'm holding.
I was off to do some... agricultural work. Yes, agricultural work.
Business as usual (Score:5, Insightful)
How about keep up what they've been doing for the last three decades? You know this decision was made by some MBA types looking to loot the assets and move onto the next victim.
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Follow the money (Score:3)
The next step is what Agile would call retrospectives -- review how the decision to sell .org was made, how the the management and the board decided to do something that is so obviously against the organization's mandate.
My bet is enough people was paid enough money to make the sale happen.
Re:Follow the money (Score:5, Insightful)
That's not how we do corruption in the west, corruption in the west is almost always plausibly deniable.
It's about doing favours to revolving door friends. It's about first massively growing the endowment of your non-profit and then down the line making the argument "well other non profits with these levels of endowment pay their boards better, guess we have no choice to follow suit if we want to retain talent".
Your not going to find documented evidence of honest corruption, the west does corruption corruptly.
Just let it go ... (Score:2)
Lets just pretend the board and CEO aren't a bunch of assholes who wanted to massively raise their salaries after they got a billion dollar endowment and do their revolving door friends a solid. While telling themselves and everyone else about all the charity they could do with the money they leech from .org pay pigs.
The boards can refresh themselves and slowly shed the biggest assholes over time and the people doing the real work maintaining the infrastructure and doing the administration probably can just
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Its not just the .org scandal though, these types have been trying to leech money out of things for a long time now. Remember the .sucks domain, organised crime protection rackets are more honest.
Go to the public meetings and demand votes of no confidence in all the board members, replace them with peopel who know how the internet works and want to keep it running smoothly as a public resource.
They should be outed and fired (Score:3)
The people who proposed selling .org should be personally identified and fired. Enough playing games.
Get it out from controll of the US Govt (Score:1)
Clearly the biggest problem is control of the .org is still under strong influence of the US Govt, (Calif AG in this case). First thing should be to make sure that no single government controls key parts of the internet.
California Attorney General Stoped .ORG sale (Score:2)
Here is the letter from California AG Xavier Becerra. It says in part: