[governance] ICANN/Verisign new agreement on roottransition -important

[Danny Younger]

Milton writes:  "It now has permanent .com and
received .net, which will probably also turn out to be
permanent"

The recent .net agreement also includes the
presumptive right-of-renewal-in-perpetuity provision
(barring breach of contract).  Article IV, Section 4.2

As mentioned in recent commentary on this agreement: 
"At a delicate stage of WSIS, which may be why Icann
felt under pressure to strike this deal, the down side
is that they have sadly handed critics of the present
system a powerful argument.  Under the new
arrangements the dollars flow, in seeming perpetuity
with out any opportunity for competitive bidding, from
the rest of the world to a United States company." 
http://www.hop255.net/hop_255/2005/10/icann_verisign_.html







		
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