RE: When is Verisign's registry contract up for renewal

[Mike Damm <MikeD () irwinresearch com>]

This sort of not-for-profit is exactly what I proposed when the VeriSign
discussion started. A non-technical response to a non-technical problem.
Since my inital email, I've recruited a few other NANOG folks and put up a
website: www.alt-servers.org.

  -Mike

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-----Original Message-----
From: Jared Mauch
To: Henry Linneweh
Cc: Paul Vixie; nanog () merit edu
Sent: 9/21/2003 12:28 AM
Subject: Re: When is Verisign's registry contract up for renewal


On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 11:23:04PM -0700, Henry Linneweh wrote:
> My view would concur with this, these are really old battles starting
back in the 
> netsol days and now the verisign has taken the same short sighted
path.
>  
> It is time that neutral party is in charge
> -Henry R Linneweh

        I was thinking this earlier this week.

        This is a public-trust that should be operated by people
whose sole job is to keep it up and working, not by a dual-role
entity as it is today.

        Perhaps we can get someone to make a not-for-profit
for this sole role.

        - Jared

> Paul Vixie <vixie () vix com> wrote:
>
> > > ICANN can seek specific performance of the agreement by Verisign,
or
> > > seek to terminate Verisign's contract as the .COM/.NET registry
operator
> > > and transfer the operation to a successor registry.
> >
> > Quiet honestly I'd like to see all of the GTLD servers given to
neutral
> > companies, ones that ARE not registrars. [...]
>
> frankly i am mystified as to why icann awards registry contracts to
> for-profit entities. registrars can be for-profit, but registries
should
> be non-profit or public-trust or whatever that specific nation's laws
allow
> for in terms of requirements for open accounting, uniform dealing, and
> nonconflict with the public's interest.
> -- 
> Paul Vixie
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