Re: [ga] serious participation in ICANN processes

[Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>]

On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 03:56:09PM -0400, Russ Smith wrote:
> Registrar competition was put in place by the US Department of Commerce.

Nope.  DoC gave the go-ahead, but ICANN did most of the work.

In fact, ICANN was absolutely instrumental in the creation of registrar
competition -- registrars are *ICANN-accredited*, after all.  The
accreditation agreement was developed by ICANN, not DoC, and that
development work took place before any agreements were signed; the
accreditation process was developed by ICANN; the accreditation process
is and always has been managed by ICANN. 

> According to ICANN's general counsel Loius Touton, ICANN is not responsible
> for any events prior to November 1999 when ICANN was officially put in place
> (http://www.icann.org/nsi/coopagmt-amend19-04nov99.htm).

ICANN existed long before that.  It was incorporated in Novermbe 1998,
and there was a tremendous amount of work involved in negotiating the
agreements w/ NSI and DOC before they were ever signed.  The supporting
organizations had to be formed, etc etc. 

> Mr. Touton told me that ICANN would not take any responsibility for
> assisting in clearing up the incident with Races.com
> (http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,32974,00.html) because it
> happened prior to ICANN's existence.

Different issue.

> I do not remember the exact date the shared registry system went into place
> but the amendment to the NSI cooperative agreement was in April 1999,
> several months before ICANN officially existed
> http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/amendment13.htm.

ICANN existed in Nov 1998.

> I guess you can say that some of the people who eventually formed ICANN were
> involved in registrar competition but, according to ICANN's general counsel,
> ICANN is not responsible for those events which took place prior to November
> 1999 even though Vint Cerf and ICANN made this claim in recent congressional
> testimonies.
> 
> To summarize, that one doesn't count.

Of course it does.

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