[Chapter-delegates] NTEN PIR community call transcript

Fri Dec 6 04:06:57 PST 2019

Here is the transcript of the call:

Cara Gagliano 

One clarifying point, and this might be a question either for you or Erik. Did Ethos condition it's offer, then, on there not being a public bidding process, or the fact of these negotiations going on not being made public. 

Erik Brooks 

Happy to answer that. No. Our proposal to the Internet Society was a proposal that we made directly, and for the purpose of trying to buy the business, but there was there was no explicit requirement that remain private. I think the reality of the situation is, ISOC retained a financial advisor, who ended up conducting a process that is normal and standard for these kinds of situations, that resulted in multiple other bids coming in. And so, no, there were no specific requirements we put on ISOC at all, as to how they conducted the process.

Best,

Richard

From: Joly MacFie [mailto:joly at punkcast.com] 
Sent: Friday, December 6, 2019 12:53
To: Richard Hill
Cc: Chapter Delegates
Subject: Re: [Chapter-delegates] NTEN PIR community call transcript

1) Ethos did not require that its offer remain private, so I don't understand why ISOC says that it cannot publish it because of non-disclosure agreements. 

 That is not exactly what was said (as I understand it). It was only that the a deal was in the works that they had no problem being known. But the rest of the detail was NDA. But it did allow ISOC's team to solicit other bids in a transparent (but still private, as per norm) manner. Like "Hey, before we do this deal that we cannot disclose details of, do you want to make an offer?"

joly

On Fri, Dec 6, 2019 at 6:39 AM Richard Hill via Chapter-delegates <chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

In that call, ISOC, PIR, and Ethos made many reassuring statements, but there wasn't much in terms of specific information.  What I got out of the call in terms of new information was:

1) Ethos did not require that its offer remain private, so I don't understand why ISOC says that it cannot publish it because of non-disclosure agreements.

2) Ethos will remain a private company, so it will not publish its financial plan or the information that it provided to its investors.

3) The new corporate structure of PIR is not yet decided, they are still evaluating the options, so I don't understand why ISOC and Ethos insist that the deal has to be closed rapidly.

4) At present, Ethos is not envisaging legally binding, enforceable commitments. Those might be developed later.

5) Ethos' offer was not affected/conditioned by the removal of the price caps (they previously announced that they intend to maintain the 10%/year cap voluntarily).

Best,

Richard

From: Chapter-delegates [mailto:chapter-delegates-bounces at elists.isoc.org] On Behalf Of Joly MacFie via Chapter-delegates
Sent: Friday, December 6, 2019 12:31
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Subject: [Chapter-delegates] NTEN PIR community call transcript

Transcript

https://isoc.live/pir/NTEN_Community_Call_Internet_Society_Sale_of_PIR_ORG.pdf 

Video: 

 https://twitter.com/ISOC_Live/status/1202679421670309888

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