[Chapter-delegates] What's going on? As presented, the sale of PIR should be rejected by the Board

[Andrew Sullivan]

Hi,

On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 03:18:19PM -0500, Alexander Blom wrote:

> My understanding has always been that back in the day, ISOC qualified for
> the management of the .org domain because of who we were: a non profit
> organization with a worldwide network of knowledgeable volunteers, all
> dedicated to promoting the cause of the internet for everyone. In short,
> the one organisation that could be trusted with safekeeping the go to
> domain for non profits.

I was not on the ICANN board that made the final determination about
the .org disposition, but that is not my understanding.  As someone
already pointed out, the ICANN criteria are at
https://archive.icann.org/en/tlds/org/criteria.htm.

Moreover, I can say with some certainty that there was little reason
then to suppose ISOC was somehow uniquely qualified.  It was a lot of
work convincing ICANN that the ISOC bid was the best one, and another
non-profit (ISC) was knocked out of the bidding while several purely
for-profit bids remained in contention.

Best regards,

Andrew

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