RE: [ga] VeriSign May Ditch Domain Deal

[Joop Teernstra <terastra@terabytz.co.nz>]

At 16:00 17/05/01 +0200, Jefsey Morfin wrote: 
> Dear Chuck,
> I certainly understand your concern and you being sensitive about the
> current situation, since the DNSO/GA may actually be one of the catalysts
> of the problems. I am sorry for that: we were only considering our and
> the Internet community interests, the way we see them.
>
> On 06:18 17/05/01, Gomes, Chuck said:
> > No
> > conclusive evidence has ever been produced to substantiate the rumor you
> > mention, undoubtedly because it is just a rumor.  Again, this has
> > nothing to do with Registry/Registrar separation because the NSI
> > Registrar has the same exact access to the SRS as all other
> > registrars.
>
> You might be correct and your position would
> still not stand: it is not to us to prove there is a problem. It is to
> you to prove there is none. 

This seems to be an unreasonable request as "negatives are not
provable".
Chuck cannot prove to you that rumors aren't true.

You've got to do better than that, Jefsey.
How about buying some Verisign shares and ask pointed questions at the
shareholders' meeting? 
Like: how could Verisign maximise shareholder value by having contracted
both the registry and registrar function with ICANN.
You are likely to get a more meaningful response than 
here.<g>








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