Re: [ga] Option A -- "Divestiture'

["William X. Walsh" <william@userfriendly.com>]

Hello Bret,

Wednesday, March 21, 2001, 8:58:09 PM, Bret Fausett wrote:

> Alexander Svensson wrote:
>> ...the threat of a pseudo divestiture should probably be
>> looked at seriously.

> Picking up on this from the "[ga] Re: Board descisions" thread...

> ICANN posted four additional FAQs this evening focusing on what Verisign
> must do to obtain the four-year extension under the original agreement and
> what limitations, if any, might be placed on Verisign or the purchaser of
> the registrar assets after any sale.

> You'll want to review FAQs 4, 5, 6 and 7 from this:

>   http://www.icann.org/melbourne/info-verisign-revisions.htm

> I won't attempt to summarize the points made there, but many of the elements
> described by James Seng in an earlier post about what Verisign would do
> under Option A appear to be realistic possibilities:

>   http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/ga/Arc06/msg01029.html

Sounds like extortion to me.

Give us what we want, or we will do this........

In any event, I see nothing there that changes my mind that the new
agreement should not be entered into.

-- 
Best regards,
 William                            mailto:william@userfriendly.com


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