It seems ICANN has decided to provisionally select Afilias in favour of IOD - although
they say that things may change.IF ICANN selects Afilias instead of IOD then IOD
will need to demostrate that the decision was made unfairly.
Ken Stubbs - DNSO
/ Afilias / CORE / iDomanin
Amedeu Abril i Abril - CORE
Greg Crew - CORE
MElbourne IT
Arthur Anderson - False report on IOD but hand picked the core members
itself
Robert Olson - False report on IOD and is in business with Verisign (NSI)
Jones
Day - Influential report on IOD - previous dealings with NSI
ICANN altered its
bylaws to influence the voters for this vote directly.
ICANN altered its bylaws
to extend the board time of unelected members
The meeting is even being sponsosred
by Melbourne IT, Verisign and Network Solutions!!
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/icann/la2000/realtime/
The
arguments that have been sited against IOD are the $35 charge (with no mention of
IOD's statement that it is flexible), the first year that IOD would be sole register
(without mentioning that this would only be 30 - 60 days from now i.e.by day 1 they
would not be sole register) and the financial state of IOD being $450,000 equity
with no mention of $6,000,000 in funding. THey did mention that there was $2,000,000
of investment but that there was not a statement to say that it would be used for
this purpose (!!!).
Initially there was a move to completely brush over IOD as
a formality and with a blink of the eye JVTeam and Afilias are "in the basket".
In
light of today's call for the process to be halted pending investigation of ICANN
this is enough to bring about a review?
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