ICANN/Verisign Agreement

[Joe Greco <jgreco@xxxxxxxxxx>]

This deal does not appear to have the best interests of the Internet at
heart; rather, it appears to be a gold mine for Verisign.

Of the people I have talked to regarding this issue, not one believes that
ICANN is doing the right thing.

Verisign has shown a repeated lack of responsibility in administering the
services it is contracted to do, and instead of this settlement, the
contract should be cancelled and reopened for bidding.  Verisign's past
negative actions should be heavily weighed in when considering any future 
bids.

Tucows has issued detailed comments on this issues; I would repeat almost
all of these comments nearly verbatim.

If ICANN proceeds with this settlement, it will give ICANN the appearance
of folding /and/ taking a payoff from Verisign to settle the SiteFinder
issue.  If ICANN proceeds with this settlement, it will be time for the
Internet to consider disbanding ICANN and looking towards an international
authority for assigning names and numbers, capable of holding the best
interests of the Internet as its primary goal.

... JG
-- 
Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net
"We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I
won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN)
With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples.