RE: [ga] Re: Board descisions

[Jefsey Morfin <jefsey@wanadoo.fr>]

Dear Chuck,
thank you for this confirmation.
Obviously dates would be of real interest to put the different events
into perspective.

On 00:13 19/03/01, Gomes, Chuck said:
>My understanding is as follows and as I recall Joe Sims confirmed much of
>this in Melbourne:  VeriSign approached ICANN about the possibility of
>renegotiating the agreements and proposed the $200M investment idea.  At
>first, this seemed to be an unrealistic idea so VeriSign continued pursuing
>the separation of its Registrar business.  Later, some interest was
>communicated by ICANN and they then proposed the terms of the new
>agreements.  Detailed negotiations of those terms then ensued.

Kent spoke of an endowment into the iCANN: could you comment in this?

>I do not know specific time frames of the above, but I can tell you that
>within VeriSign there was not much optimism about the possibility of
>renegotiating until very late in the game, well into 2001.

So why the take-it or leav-it ultimatum.
Jefsey

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