Re: [ga] Re: Board descisions

[Dave Crocker <dhc2@dcrocker.net>]

At 07:34 AM 3/9/2001, Siegfried Langenbach wrote:
>I agree that's nothing wrong in having Joe as counsel, as it would
>not be wrong to have NC and DNSO as counsel.


Siegfried,

There is a very large difference between interacting with an individual and 
interacting with a group.

This was made abundantly clear during today's Names Council meeting in 
Melbourne.

The Names Council spent all of its time complaining about the process and 
timing of the proposed new Verisign contract.  They spent no time at all 
considering the actual merits of the proposal.

Hence they chose to provide no constructive input to the ICANN Board.

 From an individual staff consultant, such dereliction of duty would not be 
tolerated.


>so the question is : why cancel the rules which had the success
>they were made for ? because of the success ?

Because the current contract grossly favors Verisign, to the detriment of 
the community.  As you cite the greatly reduced price for a registration, 
such as the excellent price from your own joker.com (that I have used 
multiple times) let us note that the registry price is still a factor of 
3-6 times higher than it should be.

Another example of the gross disproportion:  Verisign has 3 TLDs when other 
registries have (will have) only one.

A contract which brings Verisign closer -- no doubt not as close as we all 
would like, but still, closer -- to being treated the same as any other 
gTLD registry should be automatically appealing.

We need to be very careful to consider the importance of rejecting the 
proposed contract.  For example, if we reject a proposal that largely 
"regularizes" the arrangement with Verisign, imagine how much stronger 
Verisign's legal position becomes when they need to defend the 
disproportionate advantages they were granted in the current contract.

Let's all try to focus on the real content of the proposed contract, rather 
than being distracted by inevitable imperfections of process.

d/


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