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ICANN, VeriSign and the Future of .Net
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Note, .NET owners were never asked if they want
a new Registry operator. The ICANN Board was not
even involved. Joe Simms orchestrated the
horse-trade for .COM with the U.S. DOJ and the
U.S. Dept. of Commerce. Joe Simms is Jon Postel's
attorney that Vinton Cerf helped to select.
One would think that .NET owners would be given
a chance to voice their opinion in a poll or
election. It is ironic that the U.S. Government
claims to promote democracy and self-determination
of the people, by the people and for the people,
yet, a simple choice like this is not made by
the .NET owners.
ICANN has to move .NET and .COM from Verisign.
That shows the world that the ISOC is boss.
The ISOC Taliban clerics have to display their
ability to be in collusion while lieing about
that and claiming consensus and bottom-up
processes. That is what Jon Postel did his
entire life. The ISOC has to carry on that
tradition. It is a religious thing with them.
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Last Time ICANN Selected Arthur Andersen,
people see where that ended up.
http://commerce.senate.gov/hearings/testimony.cfm? id=1324&wit_id=2470
Given at a Communications Hearing:
ICANN Oversight and Security of Internet Root Servers and the Domain Name System (DNS)
Thursday, September 30 2004 - 2:30 PM - SR - 253
Designation of .NET Successor Registry Operator
The current Registry Agreement between ICANN and VeriSign, Inc. which was signed in May 2001 will expire on June 30, 2005. The agreement provides that ICANN, must adopt an open and transparent procedure for designating a “successor” Registry Operator. In June of this year the ICANN’s Board adopted a procedure for the designation of a “successor” registry, which is currently underway. ICANN’s Generic Names Supporting Organization, has adopted recommendations regarding criteria for ICANN in the selection of the “successor” .NET registry operator.
Those criteria have been submitted for public comment and ICANN has received extensive comments including comments from some of the potential .NET bidders, including the incumbent .NET registry operator, VeriSign. ICANN is seriously considering those comments with all due diligence and regard, and is obtaining professional and expert advice relating to how those comments might impact the final version of an RFP. Accordingly ICANN has extended the initially proposed deadline for issuance of an RFP to insure that the most appropriate RFP be issued. The overall timeline for the award of .NET to the incumbent VeriSign or to a successor has not been changed (with the exception of the issuance date for the RFP), and a new agreement or transfer of the current registry will occur by the date of the registry contract expiration in June 2005.
ICANN is also seeking an independent third-party professional firm, (which will most likely be a well regarded global accountancy firm) to manage the .NET “Successor” Registry Operator Process. ICANN believes that this will best insure a fair and independent process and will avoid any perceptions of possible bias or impropriety on the part of ICANN, particularly as ICANN continues defending litigation brought against it by the current .NET registry operator, VeriSign. An announcement regarding the identity of the third-party firm will follow shortly.
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Realizing that ICANN will never make it in the
U.S. and North American telecom markets, Dyson
re-enters the scene to send ICANN off-shore
where she can help to manipulate it easier
and use it to manipulate economies of third-world
countries.
http://weblog.edventure.com/blog/_archives/2004/9/ 29/151369.html
ICANN hearings Thursday/today
by Esther Dyson | September 29, 2004 09:22PM (EDT) | #
So the US Government is holding hearings on ICANN again.
One thing that seems clear is that it needs to figure out how to give up control of ICANN entirely. That's a hard thing to do, but I think it's necessary. When I was chairman - and after - I didn't think the USG role mattered that much. It certainly wasn't telling us what to do...and I somewhat callously dismissed the "perception problem." Despite its putative control, the USG never interfered in specific decisions, and to some extent it failed most by *failing* to hold us to our promises. No delegation of control was ever stopped by the USG, it didn't provide our budget, and so forth.
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