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Re: [ga] Re: Board descisions
- To: Jonathan Weinberg <weinberg@mail.msen.com>
- Subject: Re: [ga] Re: Board descisions
- From: Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>
- Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 22:03:59 -0800
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Jonathan and all remaining assembly members,
Agreed. However many of us saw this a few weeks back now.
Jonathan Weinberg wrote:
> At 03:00 AM 3/12/2001 +0100, Roberto Gaetano wrote:
> >Personally, I prefer the old contract.
> >I believe that the separation between Registrar and Registry (or, rather,
> >to keep the principle of the separation) will be more beneficial than the
> >reassignment of .org.
> >The reassignment of .org is just a matter of "quantity", i.e. it reduces
> >(of a quantity of which the significancy is doubtful) the overall market
> >share of Verisign, while the current contract aims at changing the quality
> >of the presence, i.e. prevent contemporary presence at the Registry and
> >Registrar level for the same TLD.
> >This was, BTW, one of the basic principles of the contract, and to abandon
> >this is a major change that has to be discussed.
> >[snip]
>
> I believe that the proposed revisions cannot be approved by April
> 1 if there is to be anything left of the notion that ICANN is a bottom-up
> organization. But if I were to speak to the merits, I would agree with
> Roberto. One of the reasons that the proposals have so conspicuously
> failed to win community support is that the arguments made in their favor
> are so implausible. Maintaining the .com and .net registries together with
> the dominant registrar has plain anticompetitive potential; the fact that
> there are now independent registrars with their own market share is not
> itself a reason to abandon a procompetitive divestiture. ICANN staff have
> urged that the benefit to this transaction lies in making the Verisign
> registry contract look like the proposed new TLD registry contracts, but
> they have not explained why (other than on esthetic grounds) we should view
> that congruence as overridingly important. Nor does the procompetitive
> benefit, if any, of causing Verisign to spin off .org begin to outweigh the
> disadvantages the contract would bring.
>
> Jon
>
> Jonathan Weinberg
> co-chair, Working Group C
> Professor of Law, Wayne State University
> weinberg@msen.com
>
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