Gordon and all,
As you know, pgMedia has filed an appeal.. So there is still an
agrieved party.
Gordon Cook wrote:
> 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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