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Delivered-To: dfarber+@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 15:29:58 -0400
From: Declan McCullagh <declan@xxxxxxxx>
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx

Dave,

A quick note: that IAB document is from January and was not prepared in response to Verisign's latest move.

[ my error but that even makes it worse. In spite of this caution (put mildly) VERISIGN went ahead with the plan. THAT IS WORSE djf]


BTW as we reported at News.com, ICANN has refused to comment so far, but has said they may have a statement in the next day or so:
http://news.com.com/2100-1032-5077530.html

The Department of Commerce is referring calls to ICANN and Verisign. Meanwhile it announced today it's extended the government's contract with Verisign for three more years:
http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-17sep03.htm

GREAT TIMINMG. Maybe DOC needs some new people. djf


-Declan


At 01:23 PM 9/17/2003, you wrote:
I would consider ICANNs response to this issue to be a very good indicator of their ability to be a guardian of the DNS. If they don't take a strong position, I will read that as yet another bad bad sign.

Dave

Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 13:08:10 -0400
From: "Adam H. Pendleton" <fmonkey@xxxxxxxxxxx>

To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx

Dave Farber wrote:

Doesn't Verisign have some kind of contract with a
government body specifying how they are to
discharge their trust in running the DNS?
Yes, Verisign has a contract with the United States Department of Commerce. In adition, their actions are overseen, in principle, by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. Currently the DoC is referring all queries to ICANN and Verisign, though they may issue a statement in the next few days. ICANN has said that they *will* be issuing a statement in a few days, and there has already been much internal discussion. See:

http://www.iab.org/Documents/icann-vgrs-response.html

ahp


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