Someone asked: Why was NSI granted a two year extension to the
Cooperative Agreement without an open re-bid? The end of the Cooperative
Agreement wasn't something that just snuck up and bit NTIA in the bottom
and said "surprise!".
Cook: NTIA wanted to rebid.
NSF saw no need to rebid...... It *WAS* NSF's agreement. therefore nothing
NTIA could do about it. By the time NTIA pryed it away from NSF, it was
abit late.
NTIA has not a shred of legally defensible authority to be doing what it is
doing. I have triple sourced this. But to challenge NTIA now you need a
legally agrieved party. With the PGMedia case now history we don't
presently have a legally aggrieved party. Damned shame. because NTIA will
soon give ICANN the root and with the DNSO people calling all over
themselves to get ICANN to comply to their way of thinking they are
de-facto accepting ICANN legal authority and ensnaring themselves in
ICANN's clutches.
we need an IODesign lawsuit. It cannot possibly happen too fast.
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