[86231] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ICANN and Verisign settle over SiteFinder
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School )
Thu Oct 27 15:16:57 2005
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 15:15:20 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law" <froomkin@law.miami.edu>
Reply-To: froomkin@law.tm
To: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
Cc: Chris Woodfield <rekoil@semihuman.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <87vezmf8aa.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
they get a back-door amendment to their contract, with no public process,
that extends it and allows them to charge more in the future
On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, Florian Weimer wrote:
>
> * 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.
>
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