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ICANN finally halts $1.1bn sale of .org registry, says it's 'the right thing to do' after months of controversy

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Re: Missing the point

I'm afraid your comment misses the point more than does the article, and although your comments lead to the same conclusion, they're well off the mark on how each step got there.

"ICANN org is strictly constrained. The ICANN community would cry bloody murder if it tried to make policy."

The community was informed because that was required, and the community immediately cried bloody murder. ICANN tried to ignore it, then rationalize it, then downplay it. Even though that didn't work, they soon hid any further comment from the public to try to keep the yelling down. And they eventually released the required document to move the approval process along. You will please note that community pressure against the sale started strongly right at the beginning of this fiasco, and yet ICANN only stopped when under legal pressure.

And yet, you say "In this case, it listened to the community.". No, they didn't. They didn't at all. They eventually did what the community wanted, for now, but they didn't do it because they listened to us. They tried to ignore us and they would have continued to cheerfully ignore us had we not gotten legal assistance from someone outside the community.

Your comments about ISOC, though, are completely accurate. They also deserve to be under a blade that neatly sheers off the topmost layers of any organizational chart.

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