RE: $200 million (was [ga] Draft Resolution)

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

Elisabeth,

It is a commitment to invest at least $200M total in R&D and infrastructure
improvements to improve the .com, .net and .org registries over 10 years.
Part of that would be used to improve the com/net/org gTLD zone server
constellation which would be made available to the new .org registry for one
year for free and beyond that at terms to be determined later.  Also, other
registries would be allowed access to that constellation and thereby take
advantage of by far the best zone server constellation available.

Chuck

 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Elisabeth Porteneuve [mailto:Elisabeth.Porteneuve@cetp.ipsl.fr] 
Sent:	Monday, March 19, 2001 9:08 AM
To:	david@farrar.com; ga@dnso.org
Subject:	$200 million (was [ga] Draft Resolution)


> - The ambiguity over what the $200 million to be invested in registry
> development would actually be, and the lack of any clear process to
> audit this.  

I see in:
http://www.icann.org/melbourne/proposed-verisign-agreements-topic.htm

  In addition, VeriSign will commit to invest no less than $200 million 
  in research and development activities, and resulting improvements, 
  in order to increase the efficiency and stability of the .com registry. 

And in:
http://www.icann.org/nsi/sclavos-letter-28feb01.htm

  To demonstrate our long-term commitment to the stability of the 
  Internet and to the domain name system, we would commit to invest
  $200 million over a ten-year period in research & development 
  and infrastructure to increase the efficiency and stability 
  of the .com, .net, and .org registries and the ability of 
  all ICANN-accredited registrars to access these registries. 

Question to VeriSign:
Are these "$200 million over a ten-year period" additional to
the planned VeriSign - NSI expenses in R & D and infrastructure  ?
Is it part to a new agreement (please provide URL) ?

Elisabeth Porteneuve

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