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[David <davidvargas1 AT mac.com>]

Brian

Could we wait to finish reading the chapter results of .eng tl?
 Before we all dive into your suggestion?

 Is already a tempest the current issue, for guys that are new in this
business is basically scary. I speak for my current experience.

Thank You.


On 12/25/2014 2:54 AM, Brian Koontz wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 06:10:39PM +1100, Tim Groeneveld wrote:
>> maybe this could happen [grandfathering of the domains] but I doubt it
>> highly. I have fought the good fight,  but nothing happened.  Dear Lord
>> God Almighty, please let this (and .biz before it) be a lesson that we
>> need a much better legal protections put in place if we want to seriously
>> operate in this space. 
> 
> And the only way this will happen is if OpenNIC has some sort of corporate
> structure that would allow it to stand on its own legally.  We are where we
> are right now because OpenNIC has never been a legal entity, so even if we
> have a beef with ICANN, we have no legal standing even if we did want to
> complain. 
> 
> In light of where we currently stand (or don't stand, as the case may be),
> I'd like to use this unfortunate circumstance to propose that OpenNIC funds
> be used to establish an OpenNIC foundation, to serve as the "advocacy" arm
> of OpenNIC.  
> 
> I will repost in its own thread so it's not lost.
> 
>   --Brian
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