[82421] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ICANN, VeriSign Will Consider Changes on .net Agreement
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland )
Sun Jul 17 10:43:15 2005
To: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org, brunner@nic-naa.net, ebw@nic-naa.net
In-Reply-To: Your message of "17 Jul 2005 13:23:37 -0000."
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Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2005 02:45:27 -0400
From: Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine <brunner@nic-naa.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> >I don't know if it is the repeated "ICANN can't be trusted / is corrupt"
> >messaging, or the sensitivity of the .NET "rebid" (aka VGRS deregulation)
> >that got the prompt action --
>
> It's more that ICANN has figured out that registrars are where all
> their revenue comes from, and if they dragged their feet signing
> contracts or paying, ICANN has precious little leverage over them.
<regisitrar_hat="on">
<regisitrar_constituency_hat="on">
<regisitrar_constituency_chair_candidate_hat="former">
That wasn't our reading of the balance of forces (contractualand share)
as recent as the last budget go-around.
YMLV.
</registrar_*>
Vint's sent a note to the Registrar Constituency Chair in reply to the note
from the 30 RC members present at the Luxembourg meeting.
Eric
