Re: [ga] ICANN-site FAQ on the existing Verisign agreement

[Dave Crocker <dhc2@dcrocker.net>]

At 03:32 AM 3/22/2001, Joop Teernstra wrote:
>The spirit of the agreement to separate registry and
>registrar business should be enforceable, even if the agreement is not
>watertight.

a contract is a contract.  its authority is its wording.  intent is not 
irrelevant, but it largely secondary.

that's why it is important to look at the existing contract and the 
proposed alternative in their entirety and compare them in terms of 
trade-offs, rather than in terms of individual points within them.

d/


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