[registrars] VRSN Settlement Documents Posted for Public Comment

["Bruce Tonkin" <Bruce.Tonkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Please be informed that ICANN Posts Revised Settlement Agreement http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-29jan06.htm

ICANN today posted a newly revised proposed set of agreements http://icann.org/topics/verisign-settlement.htm#amended_agreements
which, if approved, will settle all pending litigation with VeriSign. 
The proposed agreement documents are being posted for public comment in order to inform the Board's deliberations; the proposed settlement remains subject to final approval or disapproval of the ICANN Board. 29 January 2006.

A full description of the history of the settlement negotiations, the settlement documents, and the issues raised in public fora can be found at http://www.icann.org/topics/verisign-settlement.htm .
This summary includes clean and red-lined versions of the amended agreements. ICANN has also published a matrix summary of Revisions to the Settlement and Registry Agreements.
http://www.icann.org/topics/vrsn-settlement/revision-matrix-29jan06.pdf


Address to submit a comment regarding the revised agreements:
revised-settlement@xxxxxxxxx

Comments regarding the revised agreements may be viewed at:
http://forum.icann.org/lists/revised-settlement/

Comment period will close 20 February 2005, at 12:00 noon, UTC

Glen de Saint Géry
GNSO Secretariat - ICANN
http://gnso.icann.org