[86195] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ICANN and Verisign settle over SiteFinder
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Levine)
Tue Oct 25 21:42:48 2005
Date: 26 Oct 2005 01:42:03 -0000
From: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <87vezmf8aa.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de>
Cc: fw@deneb.enyo.de
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
>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).
As someone else noted, a perpetual cash cow in .COM with 7%/year
escalator clause.
> * ICANN signalled a positive outcome of a future Sitefinder review
> under the new process.
Nope, there's this complex process with outside experts to review any
new proposed sitefinder like thing.
> * 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).
My reading is the opposite, ICANN will create the root zone now.
> * VeriSign has recognized that they couldn't win in court, and
> suddenly want to play nice.
Quite possibly and don't be silly. More concretely, they probably
decided they were unlikely to win more than this agreement gives them.
R's,
John
