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Re: ICANN and Verisign settle over SiteFinder
- From: John Levine
- Date: Tue Oct 25 21:43:15 2005
>I don't understand what VeriSign receives in return for their kowtow
>(under the agreement, they basically waive any right to criticize
>ICANN's role).
As someone else noted, a perpetual cash cow in .COM with 7%/year
escalator clause.
> * ICANN signalled a positive outcome of a future Sitefinder review
> under the new process.
Nope, there's this complex process with outside experts to review any
new proposed sitefinder like thing.
> * ICANN promised to grant VeriSign the DNSSEC root and .ARPA
> maintenance without tender (the "Root Server Management Transition
> Agreement" goes into that direction; actually, the .ARPA stuff is
> the interesting one).
My reading is the opposite, ICANN will create the root zone now.
> * VeriSign has recognized that they couldn't win in court, and
> suddenly want to play nice.
Quite possibly and don't be silly. More concretely, they probably
decided they were unlikely to win more than this agreement gives them.
R's,
John
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