1) ICANN acted twice, they asked nicely and now are insisting. It may not suit your timetable but I think you're letting your past experience with policy that hasn?t gone your/our way cloud your judgment. In the almost 5 years I've been involved with this process I have yet to see such quick and decisive action and I see it as a very positive trend.
2) Regarding WLS, Verisign delayed its launch (originally set for Oct 27) due to "ICANN not approving it". Can't wait to see the end game play itself out on this front.
3) As far as punitive measures of a monetary nature go, I see that as completely irrelevant at this point. The crux of the issue is that ICANN is insisting that Verisign give us (us being the average internet user) back the internet that they broke 10+ days ago. Let's deal with that first. Once we do, an assessment of damages can be made and whatever punitive damages can be worked out. Secondly I don?t think that ICANN should have asked for such measures at this stage, we don?t know if they will act or not.
Wonder how many invalid www.ddooesnotttexxisst.com will be made at 6:00 PDT on the 4th ;)
Cheers,
James
On Fri, 3 Oct 2003 07:50:04 -0700 (PDT) George Kirikos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello,
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Good news folks...three cheers for ICANN ;)
http://www.icann.org/announcements/advisory-03oct03.htm
I wouldn't be cheering for ICANN, as they:
1. Should have made this statement on Day 1, or better yet,
PRE-EMPTIVELY, as they had been warned about SiteFinder's impending
launch before it happened (and had also seen the .biz example of
Wildcarding). This shows the continuing failure of ICANN, and its
impotence. This failure is evident in the WLS process, too, and should
be corrected there.
2. Did not go far enough, in insisting that VeriSign return all audited
GROSS revenues (that would include Overture's share, Paxfire's share,
VeriSign's share, and any other partners we don't know about) related
to SiteFinder. Hopefully this is an oversight that will be corrected
soon. It was point (d) of the petition at:
http://www.whois.sc/verisign-dns/
Sincerely,
George Kirikos http://www.kirikos.com/
