Re: Telcordia report on ICANN .net RFP Evaluation

[Patrick W Gilmore <patrick () ianai net>]

On Apr 1, 2005, at 1:07 AM, Dave Crocker wrote:

> >  I do believe that study is open to peer review?
> >  Telcordia ranking VRSN way ahead does seem to be raising some 
> > hackles here
>
> it is oddly interesting to see the persistent -- one might even say 
> tenacious
> -- clearly bi-modal clustering of assessments about Verisign.
>
>  From what I can tell, one cluster is primarily composed of people 
> with serious
> (and probably larger-scale) network services operation experience and 
> the
> other cluster has pretty much no one of that ilk...

Interesting assessment!  I had not noticed that the only outspoken 
supporters of Verisign were not truly operational.

But my recent post was not "against" (or "for", for that matter) 
Verisign.  I am just disappointed that ICANN did not have the integrity 
to select a company that is _truly_ independent to judge the 
applicants.

Would someone from ICANN care to explain their decision process?  I 
cannot believe they did not know the apparent conflict of interest.

--
TTFN,
patrick