Re: [ga] New contracts

[Alexander Svensson <alexander@svensson.de>]

Hello Erica,

Erica Roberts wrote on 09.03.01, 13:57:40:
> Following discussion today, it is clear that concern about the proposed
> Verising/Icann contract extends well beyond the Registrars Constituency.  I
> understand concerns were expressed by Gov representatives on the GAC and
> that the GA list is similarly concerned.  This is one issue where there
> appear to be a fair liklihood of achieving consensus supporting the 1999
> agreement!

could you give us more details from the Registrars Constituency
perspective? I saw this from Reuters:

  Registrars attack new ICANN VeriSign plan
  MELBOURNE, March 10 (Reuters) - A group of registrars have banded
  together to oppose a plan for Verisign Inc. to surrender control
  of the ".net" and ".org" suffixes in exchange for keeping long
  term rights to manage the valuable ".com" domain name space.

  Registrars, including Register.com Inc, Melbourne IT Ltd and
  BulkRegister.com, said in the draft of a letter to ICANN the
  proposal failed to provide tangible benefit to the Internet community
  in return for several windfalls for Verisign.

  "We believe that if approved as currently drafted, the agreements
  will significantly undermine the competition that has only begun
  to emerge in the registrar and registry industries," said the
  draft letter.

  "In effect, these proposed modifications will make a contract that
  was already bad for the industry even worse," it said.
  [...] - from http://biz.yahoo.com/rf/010310/sd95680_2.html

So are the registrars calling for a preliminary extension,
and what concessions do they want from VeriSign? (It is a
bit of a pity that the registrars don't have their own
constituency home page...) 

Best regards,
/// Alexander
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