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This sort of not-for-profit is exactly what I proposed when the VeriSign discussion started. A non-technical response to a non-technical problem. Since my inital email, I've recruited a few other NANOG folks and put up a website: www.alt-servers.org. -Mike (Please excuse any formatting oddities, sent via OWA) -----Original Message----- From: Jared Mauch To: Henry Linneweh Cc: Paul Vixie; [email protected] Sent: 9/21/2003 12:28 AM Subject: Re: When is Verisign's registry contract up for renewal On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 11:23:04PM -0700, Henry Linneweh wrote: > My view would concur with this, these are really old battles starting back in the > netsol days and now the verisign has taken the same short sighted path. > > It is time that neutral party is in charge > -Henry R Linneweh I was thinking this earlier this week. This is a public-trust that should be operated by people whose sole job is to keep it up and working, not by a dual-role entity as it is today. Perhaps we can get someone to make a not-for-profit for this sole role. - Jared > Paul Vixie <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > ICANN can seek specific performance of the agreement by Verisign, or > > > seek to terminate Verisign's contract as the .COM/.NET registry operator > > > and transfer the operation to a successor registry. > > > > Quiet honestly I'd like to see all of the GTLD servers given to neutral > > companies, ones that ARE not registrars. [...] > > frankly i am mystified as to why icann awards registry contracts to > for-profit entities. registrars can be for-profit, but registries should > be non-profit or public-trust or whatever that specific nation's laws allow > for in terms of requirements for open accounting, uniform dealing, and > nonconflict with the public's interest. > -- > Paul Vixie -- Jared Mauch | pgp key available via finger from [email protected] clue++; | http://puck.nether.net/~jared/ My statements are only mine.
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