Re[2]: [ga] Re: Board descisions

["William X. Walsh" <william@userfriendly.com>]

Hello david,

Sunday, March 11, 2001, 1:40:17 PM, david@farrar.com wrote:

> Dave Crocker wrote:

>> The Names Council spent all of its time complaining about the process and 
>> timing of the proposed new Verisign contract.  They spent no time at all 
>> considering the actual merits of the proposal.
>> 
>> Hence they chose to provide no constructive input to the ICANN Board.

> That is not the case at all.  The input was very clearly that it is 
> unacceptable to ask for the Names Council to gain a consensus on the issue in 
> such a small time-frame - a time-frame which has not been mandated by the Board 
> but purely at the whim of the staff.  The fact there is a final deadline of 18 
> May has been known for 18 months and if NSI and the staff wanted changes they 
> should have finished negiotating them earlier.  

I agree.

This new contract benefits Verisign/NSI the most.

They get to keep .com, they get to keep their registrar, and they get
to have net/org spun off as restricted TLDs that do not compete with
.com for registrations.

The changes are to the benefit of Verisign/NSI, not to the benefit of
the internet community.

The original contract should be held up.

-- 
Best regards,
 William                            mailto:william@userfriendly.com


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