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[Quinn Wood <wood.quinn.s AT gmail.com>]

On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 2:52 AM, Anner van Hardenbroek
<dwlnetnl AT gmail.com> wrote:
> With a legal entity I don't see with reasonable successfully challenge the 
> ICANN either.
>
This is my perception of the situation as well.

I think one benefit of a legal entity that OpenNIC could benefit from
is the ability to own physical property in a organization's name (for
example: addresses, names, and hardware.) A restructuring of the group
would be required to determine how to handle this (that would be some
kind of working group's job.)

I personally don't think there are enough dedicated individuals within
the community to maintain a legal entity. The existing groups we have
handling things are already limited to the same handful of people
spread out amongst the tasks, at which point there's no point in
having them (if it's just Jeff, Brian, Alex, Julian, and etc handling
all tasks.) At its core, this is a hobbyist group and people have
their own projects- most of the ones I've seen are one-man things with
the occasional call for help that goes nowhere. OpenNIC originally
started as an alternative to ICANN, but I hate to say I have no belief
it will ever put a dent in them in its current state. I don't think
organizing as a legal entity directly affects my outlook.