Re: [ga] Re: Board descisions

[edierker@hi-tek.com]

Without waving any hands and regardless of the actual language and ramifications of 
the contracts, the process used, if not addressed and corrected has significant 
ramifications.  There is a growing murmer here in Melbourne that our "staff" is 
running the show without regard to so's and this is eroding confidence and 
producing rifts. If for no other reason than PR it needs to be addressed during 
todays meeting.


I do not believe the public comment period is closed.  Mr. Cerf made it clear that 
he would let the people who could not speak, due to other pressing engagements of 
the BoD, speak this morning, there were at least eight, albeit this was generally 
regarding the international matters but it was during AOB period.
Sincerely,
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On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 09:27:01PM -0500, Jonathan Weinberg wrote:
> At 03:00 AM 3/12/2001 +0100, Roberto Gaetano wrote:
[...]
> 
>          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;

You have a misunderstanding.  NSI loses .net, as well.

> 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

..and .net

> begin to outweigh the 
> disadvantages the contract would bring.

You are just waving your hands.

Could you specify why?  What, specifically, are the disadvantages that it 
would bring?

-- 
Kent Crispin                               "Be good, and you will be
kent@songbird.com                           lonesome." -- Mark Twain
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