The long and the short of it is that we are bogged down in policy-creation land.
The fight is still ongoing, but now it is very much limited to wrangling over words and convincing a whole bunch of other people that we our proposal is the right proposal to adopt. Hopefully, we get some closure on this in the june time-frame at which point a recommendation will be forwarded to the ICANN Board of directors for ratification (and passing on to the staff for inclusion in the relevant contracts).... -rwr ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert L Mathews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 3:12 PM Subject: Any Update on Verisign Transfer Restrictions? > With the news about other people suing Verisign for illegal acts (rah! > rah!), I'm wondering what, if anything, is happening with OpenSRS trying > to put a stop to Verisign's burdensome transfer restrictions, which are > still causing a lot of problems for many of us. > > Perhaps six months ago, there seemed to be a great deal of activity on > this front -- OpenSRS was collecting examples, sending letters to > Verisign's legal department, etc. The feeling I got was that OpenSRS was > leading the way in trying to put a stop to it. > > Perhaps this is just perception, but that seems to have fizzled out, and > I'm afraid that we're all now just resigned to this sad state of affairs. > Verisign will again have won a new "right" to do something clearly > against the spirit of a contract, simply by doing it without asking for > permission then riding out the storm (which doesn't bode well for those > concerned about the WLS proposal). > > I'm hoping my perception is wrong, and there's all sorts of daring > behind-the-scenes legal action going on. (I'm thinking of Elliot Noss > swinging through a plate-glass window in tights: "You have been served... > evildoers!" "Aieee! It's DomainFairnessMan!") > > Any chance of an update from OpenSRS on this issue? > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > Robert Mathews, Tiger Technologies http://www.tigertech.com/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > Sometimes, my father would accuse chestnuts of being lazy -- the > sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane > lament. My childhood was typical: summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. >
