Re: [ga] More on Sitefinder suspension

[Karl Auerbach <karl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Karl Auerbach wrote:

> >- Someone with guts at the DoC and who is willing to put his/her job on
> >the line and willing to give the order to pull the contractual plug on
> >the 1993 cooperative agreement.

On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Dan Steinberg wrote:

> one question: if there  is someone with the guts you say is 
> required....what authority or contract clause will they cite to pull the 
> contractual plug on the agreement?

It has been a long time since I read the cooperative agreement, but I do 
remember it having terms that gave both NSI and the DoC the right to 
terminate the agreeemnt on some period of notice.

The agreement also, if I remember right, obligated NSI to turn over copies 
(not the originals) of all materials (which I would assume also includes 
procedures) needed to transfer the job to a sucessor.

I'm not sure how all that changed after ICANN, at the behest of it's 
"outside counsel" gifted .com to Verisign in perpetuity.

		--karl--