Re: [ga] ICANN Board Approves VeriSign Settlement Agreements

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Danny and all former DNSO GA members or other interested
stakeholders/users,

Well this decision by the ICANN Bod does not reflect the consensus
of stakeholders/users...

Danny Younger wrote:

> http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-28feb06.htm
>
> Marina del Rey, California, 28 February 2006: Today,
> ICANN's Board of Directors approved, by a majority
> vote, a set of agreements settling a long time dispute
> between ICANN and VeriSign, the registry operator for
> the .COM registry.
>
> These settlement documents include a new registry
> agreement relating to the operation of the .COM
> registry. The new .COM registry agreement will now
> proceed to the U.S. Department of Commerce for final
> approval, and the entire settlement is dependent upon
> this approval before it is finalized. USDOC approval
> is required due to the unique history of the .COM
> generic top-level domain and it is the only gTLD which
> requires such approval. If approved, this settlement
> will clear the way for a new and productive
> relationship between ICANN and VeriSign facilitating
> ICANN's stewardship and technical coordination of the
> Internet's domain name system.
>
> ICANN's Board voted 9 to 5 in favor of the settlement
> agreements with one director abstaining. Affirmative
> votes were cast by the following Board Members: Vint
> Cerf (Chairman), Alejandro Pisanty (Vice-Chairman),
> Mouhamet Diop, Demi Getschko, Hagen Hultzsch, Veni
> Markovski, Vanda Scartezini, Paul Twomey (President
> and CEO), and Hualin Qian. Directors who voted against
> the approval of the settlement documents were:
> Raimundo Beca, Susan Crawford, Joichi Ito, Njeri
> Rionge, and Peter Dengate Thrush. Director Michael
> Palage abstained. Statements by Board members on their
> votes will be posted on the ICANN website within the
> next two days.
>
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Regards,

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