Re: [ga] Re: Board descisions

[Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>]

On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 09:08:52AM +0100, Roberto Gaetano wrote:
> >I think Mr Sclavos dictated that letter to a secretary mainly as a
> >polite message to the chair of the board of a company with whom his
> >company has been dealing with.  The letter is not a contract, and indeed
> >it is quite possible that Mr Sclavos dictated it in a hurry.
> 
> Oh, yes! And we may even think that "it is quite possible" that the 
> secretary him/herself drafted the letter and put it in the pile of documents 
> to be signed (in a hurry). It's just about the monopoly in the domain name 
> business, worthed only few billion dollars, and it's perfectly reasonable 
> that it does not deserve more than few seconds of Mr. Sclavos' time.
> 
> (Seriously, I thought you made above the assumption that Mr. Sclavos was not 
> an idiot! This seems to contradict your assumption.)

Sorry, I didn't express myself well.  I'm sure that Mr Sclavos
considered the letter very carefully, and probably had his lawyers draft
good parts of it.  But the facts remain: the contracts are distinct from
the letter; it is a letter to Vint, and not a letter to ICANN; Vint
can't unilaterally bind ICANN to anything; an appreciation of Vint's
personal committments to whatever is just an appreciation, and has no
legal significance.  You can sit and read the tea leaves however you
want, but why do you waste time doing that? Why not look at the
*contracts*?


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