Re: [ga] Last minute changes to Verisign agreements

["Patrick Corliss" <patrick@quad.net.au>]

Hi Marilyn

> I'm just printing out to read the letters. They may be in response to the NC
> requested changes in what I am calling "section two" of the NC
> recommendation. I don't know yet.
>
> But, if they are in response to changes suggested to the stakeholders, or
> are clarifications to Option B, couldn't that also be good news?
>
> I need to read the letters, and am going off to do that now.

I have read the three letters and it is very clear to me from the construction
of the first letter that ICANN staff have renegotiated the deal in a way that
was said to be impossible.  ICANN has also fudged the issue to suggest that
these are minor, procedural changes.

If the changes are minor and of no substance then they should not affect the
decision.  However, these changes are clearly stated as having been made with
the intention of making Option B more attractive.

So it looks, one again, as if last minute changes are rushed through with no
time for consideration or review by the participative, community-based
organisations (however faulty) set up for that purpose.

Clearly this make a joke out of the GA's role in the whole process.

Sincerely
Patrick Corliss

> Marilyn
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: JandL [mailto:jandl@jandl.com]
> Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2001 10:28 PM
> To: ga@dnso.org; david@farrar.com
> Subject: Re: [ga] Last minute changes to Verisign agreements
>
>
> This is a typical move for the ICANN board and Verisign.  Is there
> any way we can motion, second and present to the board?
>
> > Most people here should have seen the announcement that despite
> > explicit statements that no changes were possible to the Verisign
> > agreements ("it was A or B - there is no C") ICANN management and
> > Verisign have negiotated some changes which they have just announced.
> > The Board now has a full 24 hours to analyse these new agreements and
> > vote on them with no input from the DNSO.
> >
> > I beleive Verisign should agree to a 30 or 60 day extension to the 18
> > May deadline to allow consideration of these new changes.  Yes
> > Verisign said they would not agree to an extension previously but they
> > also said that no further changes would be considered.
> >
> > I am extremely nervous about the possibility of ICANN Board having to
> > vote on such huge and critical issues with less than 24 hours to
> > analyse the changes.
> >
> > DPF
> >
> >
> > From: icann-announce@icann.org
> > To: "ICANN Announcement List" <icann-announce@icann.org>
> > Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 16:38:02 -0700
> > Subject: [icann-announce] Proposed Revisions to ICANN-VeriSign
> > Agreements
> >
> > On 1 March 2001, ICANN posted a proposal to revise the agreements
> > between ICANN and VeriSign.  The announcement appears at
> > <http://www.icann.org/melbourne/proposed-verisign-agreements-topic.htm
> > >. ICANN has posted a web page, with links to relevant source
> > documents and a series of FAQs about the proposal at
> > <http://www.icann.org/melbourne/info-verisign-revisions.htm>.
> >
> > Among the items just posted is correspondence from yesterday and today
> > between Stuart Lynn (ICANN's CEO) and Stratton Sclavos (VeriSign's
> > CEO) regarding additional text changes to the proposed agreements and
> > related undertakings between ICANN and VeriSign.  The URLs for this
> > correspondence are:
> >
> > <http://www.icann.org/correspondence/lynn-letter-to-sclavos-31mar01.ht
> > m>
> > <http://www.icann.org/correspondence/sclavos-letter-to-lynn-01apr01.ht
> > m>
> > <http://www.icann.org/correspondence/lynn-letter-to-sclavos-01apr01.ht
> > m>
> >
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> >
> >
> >
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