This is even worse

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

Delivered-To: dfarber+ () ux13 sp cs cmu edu
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 15:29:58 -0400
From: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>
To: dave () farber net

Dave,

A quick note: that IAB document is from January and was not prepared in 
response to Verisign's latest move.

[ my error but that even makes it worse. In spite of this caution (put 
mildly) VERISIGN went ahead with the plan. THAT IS WORSE djf]


BTW as we reported at News.com, ICANN has refused to comment so far, but 
has said they may have a statement in the next day or so:
http://news.com.com/2100-1032-5077530.html

The Department of Commerce is referring calls to ICANN and Verisign. 
Meanwhile it announced today it's extended the government's contract with 
Verisign for three more years:
http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-17sep03.htm

GREAT TIMINMG. Maybe DOC needs some new people. djf


-Declan


At 01:23 PM 9/17/2003, you wrote:
> I would consider ICANNs response to this issue to be a very good indicator 
> of their ability to be a guardian of the DNS. If they don't take a strong 
> position, I will read that as yet another bad bad sign.
>
> Dave
>
> Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 13:08:10 -0400
> From: "Adam H. Pendleton" <fmonkey () fmonkey net>
>
> To: dave () farber net
>
> Dave Farber wrote:
>
> > Doesn't Verisign have some kind of contract with a
> > government body specifying how they are to
> > discharge their trust in running the DNS?
> Yes, Verisign has a contract with the United States Department of 
> Commerce.  In adition, their actions are overseen, in principle, by the 
> Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.  Currently the DoC is 
> referring all queries to ICANN and Verisign, though they may issue a 
> statement in the next few days.  ICANN has said that they *will* be 
> issuing a statement in a few days, and there has already been much 
> internal discussion.  See:
>
> http://www.iab.org/Documents/icann-vgrs-response.html
>
> ahp
>
>
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