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A Day Which Will Live in Infamy: ICANN Board Approves VeriSign Settlement
From: "Dude VanWinkle" <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 20:08:50 -0500
ICANN's Board voted to accept the latest settlement proposal by a vote of 9 to 5: "Today, ICANN's Board of Directors approved, by a majority vote, a set of agreements settling a long time dispute between ICANN and VeriSign, the registry operator for the .COM registry. These settlement documents include a new registry agreement relating to the operation of the .COM registry. The new .COM registry agreement will now proceed to the U.S. Department of Commerce for final approval, and the entire settlement is dependent upon this approval before it is finalized. USDOC approval is required due to the unique history of the .COM generic top-level domain and it is the only gTLD which requires such approval. If approved, this settlement will clear the way for a new and productive relationship between ICANN and VeriSign facilitating ICANN's stewardship and technical coordination of the Internet's domain name system." This truly is a day which will live in infamy, and the five who voted against it have my respect. The war is surely not over although the theatre shifts to the Department of Commerce who will need to approve the contractual changes. That is not assured. Should the DoC reject it (and if they have any folks with economics backgrounds, they would do so in a jiffy), ICANN's days as a body are numbered. VeriSign should not begin partying. If one recalls, the ICANN Board also voted to approve WLS (another poor decision), in March 2004, yet it hasn't seen the light of day. Links: http://www.circleid.com/posts/icann_board_approves_verisign_settlement/ Actual Link: http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-28feb06.htm ------------- I am not sure what to think of this, aside from the goverment pressure really works. Does this also mean the internet split will happen faster? -JP _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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