Hopefully this is indicative of where Mozilla stands on this.
It would be great if there could be a net wide push to relieve ISOC of their .org duties, preferably before 2029. It feels strange to say this, because ISOC is a legitimate organization with more than 50k members world wide.
Mozilla and EFF have shown themselves to be very good Internet citizens with Let's Encrypt and are likely more than capable of running a top domain operation too.
Ideally, you would address the underlying issues that caused this attempt to cash in on the .org domain at the same time. Or you would just be making whichever organization you choose a target for the underhanded types that infiltrated ISOC.
Perhaps the key would be to signal that for the next contract, priority would be given to bidders that are owned by multiple organizations. Also require the owners to be non-profit. So a new XYZ co-owned by Mozilla, EFF and ISOC might work.
You'd want at least three non-profit owners and for the new company to have by-laws prohibiting any one company from accumulating more than 50% control.
It would be great if there could be a net wide push to relieve ISOC of their .org duties, preferably before 2029. It feels strange to say this, because ISOC is a legitimate organization with more than 50k members world wide.
Mozilla and EFF have shown themselves to be very good Internet citizens with Let's Encrypt and are likely more than capable of running a top domain operation too.