Re: [ga] expiration of TLD sponsorship agreements

[Joe Baptista <baptista@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Edward Hasbrouck wrote:

> There's a strange reference in ICANN's report this month on registry 
> failure and continuity planning to "the current .aero sponsorship 
> agreement".  But it was a 5-year agreement, concluded in late 2001, that 
> expired in late 2006.  I can find no indication of a "current" agreement.
>
> Was there some undisclosed (and procudurally improper) renewal or 
> extension of the ICANN-SITA agreement?  Or is ICANN just ignoring the 
> expiration of the .aero, .museum, and .coop agreements, to avoid dealing 
> with the implications of the sponsors no longer being contracted to ICANN?
>  
???? There was a revelation for SITA in 2005

http://www.publicroot.org/news-2005-09-30-resignations.html

SITA certainly leanred a valuable lesson.

regards
joe baptista

> I've commented on this at:
>
> http://forum.icann.org/lists/registry-failure-report/msg00003.html
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> Edward Hasbrouck
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> <http://hasbrouck.org>
> +1-415-824-0214
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