RE: Re[4]: [ga] Re: Board descisions

["Gomes, Chuck" <cgomes@verisign.com>]

William,

VeriSign extortion?  Most of the changes in the new agreements were proposed
by ICANN.  Your accusations don't make sense in light of that fact.

Chuck

 -----Original Message-----
From: 	William X. Walsh [mailto:william@userfriendly.com] 
Sent:	Monday, March 19, 2001 6:02 AM
To:	Alexander Svensson
Cc:	ga@dnso.org
Subject:	Re[4]: [ga] Re: Board descisions

Hello Alexander,

Monday, March 19, 2001, 2:52:37 AM, Alexander Svensson wrote:


> Hi William!

>>> If it was
>>> possible to circumvent the divestiture requirements in
>>> the old agreement (II.23) by opening a reselling business,
>>> this could be VeriBad, and there can be no doubt VeriSign
>>> would do it if the courts allowed it to.

>> I don't see this as a bad thing.  No different than any other large
>> company doing the same thing.
>>
>> They start from scratch.

> That's the question. If they license the trademark (thanks
> to Bret Fausett for pointing out this possibility) and
> have a strategic alliance (see James Seng's post), things
> could be basically unchanged for NSI customers.

If they do this, if they do that.

If they do this, we pretty much have the status quo, nothing really
changes, and they still have indirect control over the registry whose
market share is diving faster and faster every quarter.

We shouldn't give them additional benefits, which place them in an
even STRONGER position, and with many known and real detrimental
effects, simply because there is a chance they may show themselves to
be the slimy despicable bastards we all already know them to be and
find some way to circumvent the contract.

I suggest that they are a lot less likely to do that, because its not
just ICANN who is a party to the original contract, but the US
Government, who may react to pressure from Congress to take action
should NSI try and circumvent the contract provisions in such a way.

Verisign/NSI would risk losing the entire ball of wax?

Sorry, but I think these are mostly empty threats being used by
Verisign/NSI to extort concessions from ICANN and remove the USG as a
governing factor from the contracts.

Extortionists should not be conceded to.

-- 
Best regards,
 William                            mailto:william@userfriendly.com


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