Re: [ga] Re: Board descisions

[Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>]

On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 11:28:42AM -0600, Andy Gardner wrote:
> >Of course.  But you seem to be operating under the assumption that
> >the interests of vsgn and the interests of the internet community are
> >necessarily contradictory.
> 
> >This is simply not the case.  The interests of vsgn's stockholders and
> >the interests of the internet community have a great deal in common,
> >and there are many possibilities for true win-win results.
> 
> If a decent contract could be negotiated , yes. But Verisign's
> unwillingness to negotiate - it's either option A or B - negates such a
> win-win proposition.

That doesn't follow.  In fact, vsgn's willingness or unwillingness to
negotiate is totally irrelevant.  There are a million completely
legitimate reasons why vsgn may not want to negotiate further -- there
could be other negotiations taking place over the sale of the registrar,
for example, that are contingent on the content of the current proposal. 


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Kent Crispin                               "Be good, and you will be
kent@songbird.com                           lonesome." -- Mark Twain
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