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The World’s Internet Registries Demand ICANN’s Records on .org Registry Transfer (circleid.com) 14
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.”
- To people unfamiliar with the legalese used, that’s about Defcon 4 in terms of a serious bitch-slapping.
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.
Re:The ASO submitted correspondence… (Score:4, 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.
- by fahrbot-bot ( 874524 ) on Sunday January 05, 2020 @01:07AM (#59588118)
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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.
- The registries could render ICANN powerless on the spot. There is literally nothing ICANN could do if the registries decided to handle ICANN’s responsibilities in a newly created organization that they agree upon. Same with the domain registrars and the DNS root server operators. ICANN is only at the center of it all because and as long as it kinda works.
- There are five regional registries, ARIN, APNIC, RIPE, LACNIC and AFRINIC. If these registries decide to dethrone ICANN, they can do that. It wouldn’t take long. ICANN is mostly just a glorified maintainer of some small databases which store delegations of namespaces.
Oh I long for the days when my worldnic handle meant something…
Now everyone wants to look at your board minutes. To bad you didn’t get the
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