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Re: Lawsuit on ICANN (was: Re: A few words on VeriSign's sitefinder)
From: Paul Vixie <vixie () vix com>
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 23:59:51 +0000
in response to...
http://biz.yahoo.com/rc/040226/tech_verisign_2.html
X-Mailer: MH-E 7.4; nmh 1.0.4; GNU Emacs 21.3.1 neil () DOMINO ORG (Neil J. McRae) writes:
can't say I'm surprised. Another nail in the Verisign coffin.
it's not nearly that simple. john.neiberger () efirstbank com ("John Neiberger") added:
They must have taken a page from the recently-released book "How to Shoot Your Company in the Foot," by SCO.
there's a certain inevitability to these things. sco believed that it had no choice except closing its doors or suing. verisign may feel likewise. the palatable choices were all discarded much earlier, and not nec'ily in ways whose outcomes were knowable. william () elan net (William Leibzon) writes:
And I'm sure ICANN will remember it for long time - right up to the point when Verisign's contracts for .com/.net management are up for renewal.
IANAL, but upon rereading the contract a few months ago they looked self-perpetuating and there appears to be no circumstance no matter how unreasonable under which icann could select a different operator for the .com or .net registries. but don't take my word for it -- pay a lawyer to read <http://www.icann.org/registries/agreements.htm> and then let us all know what she tells you. the paper at <http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=475281> entitled "Site Finder and Internet Governance" by Jonathan Weinberg is also quite instructive. -- Paul Vixie
Current thread:
- Re: Lawsuit on ICANN (was: Re: A few words on VeriSign's sitefinder) Neil J. McRae (Feb 26)
- Re: Lawsuit on ICANN (was: Re: A few words on VeriSign's sitefinder) Paul Vixie (Feb 26)
- RE: Lawsuit on ICANN (was: Re: A few words on VeriSign's sitefinder) David Schwartz (Feb 26)
- RE: Lawsuit on ICANN (was: Re: A few words on VeriSign's sitefinder) Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law (Feb 26)
- RE: Lawsuit on ICANN (was: Re: A few words on VeriSign's sitefinder) Stephen J. Wilcox (Feb 27)
- RE: Lawsuit on ICANN (was: Re: A few words on VeriSign's sitefinder) Mark Jeftovic (Feb 27)
- Re: Lawsuit on ICANN (was: Re: A few words on VeriSign's sitefinder) Paul Vixie (Feb 28)
- Re: Lawsuit on ICANN (was: Re: A few words on VeriSign's sitefinder) Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine (Feb 27)
- Re: Lawsuit on ICANN (was: Re: A few words on VeriSign's sitefinder) Michael Painter (Feb 27)
- RE: Lawsuit on ICANN (was: Re: A few words on VeriSign's sitefinder) David Schwartz (Feb 26)
- Re: Lawsuit on ICANN (was: Re: A few words on VeriSign's sitefinder) Paul Vixie (Feb 26)
- RE: Lawsuit on ICANN (was: Re: A few words on VeriSign's sitefinder) Randy Bush (Feb 26)