Response to Final Staff Report

[Marshall Strauss <mstrauss@xxxxxxxxx>]

September 29, 2002

Dear Sir/Madam:

Having awaited with great interest ICANN's Final Staff Evaluation Report on the 
Proposals for Reassignment of the .Org Registry, I am pleased to see that the 
DotOrg Foundation maintained its position as one of the top tier bidders.  

As we had stated in previous communications to ICANN, my colleagues and I who 
have worked diligently on the application and plans for the .Org registry 
appreciate the extraordinary time that ICANN staff, board and the technical 
evaluation team from Gartner have devoted to this process.  We are disappointed, 
however, that the final staff evaluation did not take into account the almost 
unanimous round of criticisms levied against the NCDNHC Report.  Based on the 
public comments pointing out the discrepancies, material mistakes, and wholly 
new criteria in the NCDNHC Report, it should have been heavily discounted in 
the final staff evaluation.  We trust that the ICANN Board in making its 
evaluation will consider these comments and evaluate the top bidders based on 
the Gartner report and their own independent assessment of the bids' answers  
on the relevant non-commercial and policy-oriented criteria.

As always, we remain available should ICANN have any further questions.

Sincerely,

Marshall Strauss
President
DotOrg Foundation