IP: Outcry over ICANN's outrageous decision Monday: Good Morning Silicon Valley Tue Apr 03 12:15:29 EDT 2001

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

>Outcry over ICANN's outrageous decision Monday to allow VeriSign to 
>continue managing the lucrative .com registry through 2007 -- with an 
>option to renew for four years thereafter -- was swift and caustic. ICANN 
>board member Karl Auerbach -- one of only three ICANN board members to 
>vote against approving the contentious contract -- immediately decried it 
>as unfair. "This was not a win for the Internet community. This was a win 
>for some business interests, VeriSign in particular," 
><http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/163983.html>Auerbach told Newsbytes. 
>"The Department of Commerce has a responsibility to the citizens of the 
>United States who have been left out of the benefits of this contract." 
>ICANN Chairman Vint Cerf did his damnedest to dismiss allegations that the 
>agency had given VeriSign preferential treatment, and said the new 
>agreement goes a long way toward increasing competition. Touting the 
>contract as <http://www.icann.org/announcements/icann-pr02apr01.htm>"a 
>significant improvement" over the one negotiated in 1999, Cerf said "these 
>new agreements reflect both the increasing maturity of ICANN and evidence 
>that VeriSign wants to be a cooperative participant in the ICANN process."

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