[86182] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ICANN and Verisign settle over SiteFinder
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Florian Weimer)
Tue Oct 25 01:59:24 2005
From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: Chris Woodfield <rekoil@semihuman.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 07:57:33 +0200
In-Reply-To: <2F8564B3-C98B-49D0-A4D0-F93EA98E8531@semihuman.com> (Chris
Woodfield's message of "Mon, 24 Oct 2005 17:17:57 -0700")
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
* Chris Woodfield:
> Said the flowerpot: "Oh no, not again..."
>
> http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8DEL2TO7.htm?
> campaign_id=apn_tech_down&chan=tc
I don't understand what VeriSign receives in return for their kowtow
(under the agreement, they basically waive any right to criticize
ICANN's role).
Two possible explanations:
* ICANN signalled a positive outcome of a future Sitefinder review
under the new process.
* ICANN promised to grant VeriSign the DNSSEC root and .ARPA
maintenance without tender (the "Root Server Management Transition
Agreement" goes into that direction; actually, the .ARPA stuff is
the interesting one).
* VeriSign has recognized that they couldn't win in court, and
suddenly want to play nice.
