Stakeholders in .org Want ICANN Consultation on PIR's Sale, Mueller Says
Noncommercial stakeholders are "waiting for a consultation regarding the sale of .ORG" (see 2001310015), wrote Milton Mueller, a founder of the Georgia Institute of Technology's Internet Governance Project. The professor said his Saturday post notified ICANN and its board of…
Sign up for a free preview to unlock the rest of this article
Export Compliance Daily combines U.S. export control news, foreign border import regulation and policy developments into a single daily information service that reliably informs its trade professional readers about important current issues affecting their operations.
the pending request: "Such a consultation is not a courtesy to be offered at ICANN’s discretion, but is a requirement based on ICANN’s own Registry Agreement (RA) contract and its Registry Transition Process (RTP) policies." On Dec. 9, the Non-Commercial Stakeholders Group asked ICANN to consult "impacted registrants and the global non-commercial Internet community" on the Internet Society selling the Public Interest Registry to Ethos Capital. ICANN Chair Maarten Botterman's Jan. 7 response assured the stakeholders group that “ICANN org team and the Board are working together to evaluate the proposed acquisition to ensure that the registry remains secure, reliable, and stable.” Botterman didn't address the request for consultation, Mueller recalled. Mueller, at Georgia Tech's public policy school, has blogged (see 2001150013) that the sale need not be alarming; he didn't comment Monday. ICANN declined to comment.