Re: [ga] .BIZ contract amendment in May 2006? Also, Has Neustar filed its "Proof of Concept" reports for .biz?

["kidsearch" <kidsearch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Now you are asking way too much. Asking for ICANN to be fair, open, and
honest. Thats just too much to ask Karl.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Karl Auerbach" <karl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Drazek, Keith" <Keith.Drazek@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "George Kirikos" <gkirikos@xxxxxxxxx>; <ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>;
<revised-biz-info-org-agreements@xxxxxxxxx>; <john.jeffrey@xxxxxxxxx>;
<vint@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 7:35 PM
Subject: Re: [ga] .BIZ contract amendment in May 2006? Also, Has Neustar
filed its "Proof of Concept" reports for .biz?


>
> Given that .biz got the nod while 40 other applicants were told (after
> each paying $50,000 for the privilege) to wait, it seems very unfair to
> allow .biz or any of the other six (and subsequent) TLD winers to amend
> their contracts with ICANN until such time as those other 40 get approved.
>
> So I propose that .biz, and everybody else, has to sit with their
> existing contracts until those folks who paid $2,000,000 to ICANN in
> year 2000 get approved.
>
> It's only fair that you not get the green light while those other 40
> have to sit, and sit, and sit, and sit...
>
> By-the-way, if memory serves me right, one thing I noticed in ICANN's
> accounting (remember, I'm probably the *only* person outside of ICANN's
> staff who has ever really looked at it) did not put that $2,000,000 in
> year 2000 application fees in an account that was considered contingent
> or refundable.  And ICANN has explicitly said that those applications
> are not dis-approved but remain pending.
>
> --karl--
>
>
>
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