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Milton,
I'm not speaking here for the DotOrg Foundation. My personal complaint with the argument you're making above is that it doesn't take the Foundation at its word, but instead supposes a hidden motive (the desire to restrict .org in the future) and then criticizes the proposal on that basis. The DotOrg Foundation expressly says that it does not seek to restrict entry into the .org TLD. You can rest assured that if DotOrg Foundation were indeed awarded the contract, ICANN would insist on a provision in the accreditation agreement holding it to that promise.
It's certainly true that anyone can offer any set of services outside the operation of a registry. You'll recall that the ICANN Board used this same argument against the approval of new TLDs in 2000. (Why do you need .geo when you can offer the same services under *.geo.com?) Where I feel you and the evaluation team erred though was in discounting DotOrg Foundation's suggestion that it was trying to solve a real world problem experienced by many non-commercial organizations and, instead, crediting some hidden motive that was in fact expressly disclaimed in the application.
The fact that the evaluation team didn't recognize that this was a real problem to be solved -- and instead looked to another motive -- may well be because the evaluation team was not sufficiently reflective of the .org community.
-- Bret
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