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

[Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>]

On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 07:23:26PM +0100, Roberto Gaetano wrote:
> Kent,
> 
> Incidentally, since you are listing the various things that VeriSign may do 
> under option A to keep the monopoly, may I notice that there is nothing 
> under option B that prevents VeriSign to buy the company that will win the 
> contract for .org,

No, there is nothing explicit in Option B to prevent that.  It's not a
realistic concern, though -- there is nothing to prevent the contract
between ICANN and said registry operator from having arbitrarily strong
conditions separating it from Verisign.  Moreover, it is perhaps a
presumption to assume that the registry operator for .org would want to
sell.  Suppose that the registry operatory for .org were CORE -- how 
would Verisign buy CORE?

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