Re: [ga] .ORG Names

[Marc Schneiders <marc@schneiders.org>]

On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, at 16:06 [=GMT-0800], Kent Crispin wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 12:33:27AM +0100, Marc Schneiders wrote:
> [...]
> > > I believe that the document was prepared in a tremendous last-minute
> > > rush), but the fact is that the legal documents themselves contain
> > > absolutely no presumption about how .org should be managed. 
> > 
> > It would be great and very helpful for the further discussion, if
> > ICANN would send out something reassuring about this. Say a *clear*
> > message from the chairman? 
> 
> The discussion on the names council list from Touton and Sims is very
> clear indeed.
> 
> More important, "assurances" are a red herring and a rathole and a 
> crutch.  What matters is what's in the documents.

Like this, you mean?

"ICANN has agreed that, at a minimum, existing registrants would be
permitted to remain in the new .org registry for one renewal cycle
under its new management." 
(http://www.icann.org/nsi/sclavos-letter-28feb01.htm)

This letter makes clearer than all subsequent discussion, what is
happening. NSI/Verisign wants an impotent ORG. Naturally we are left
in the dark as much as possible, until the deal is done. And then
Verisign can on the basis of the document cited above (published on
ICANN's website), demand that ORG will be made into something that
will not harm Verisign's business. How very clever. I do not buy it.

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