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Re: [ga] .ORG Names
On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 02:15:13AM +0100, Marc Schneiders wrote:
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> > 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)
That's a letter. It is not one of the contracts.
> This letter makes clearer than all subsequent discussion, what is
> happening. NSI/Verisign wants an impotent ORG.
It may be a language barrier thing, but the above quote simply does not
mean what you apparently think it means. Quite the opposite.
> 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.
Correction: You don't *understand* it.
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kent@songbird.com lonesome." -- Mark Twain
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