Wed, 31 Jul 2002 13:29:51 GMT
On July 26, 2002, Susan Crawford, of Wilmer, Cutler and Pickering, filed a submission to the ICANN
Public Comment Forum on the WLS on behalf of SnapNames that suggests
that the Board review of the recommendations of the Transfers TF related
to the WLS is "...a process not based in any contractually supported or
legally permissible role of the Board."
Needless to say, I couldn't disagree with the arguments made in this
submission more strongly (except in two regards - read the paper ;) and
have fi
led a response with the Transfers TF for their consideration. My
basic feeling is that;
1. The WLS constitutes a fundamental change in the domain names market
which permanently advantages one player.
2. The safeguards recommended by the Task Force to allay some of these
advantages are reasonable and should receive the support of the Board.
3. The Board of ICANN should deny Verisign's request to amend the
contract until such time that Verisign can actually agree to and
practically implement the necessary changes to the functional
specification of the WLS.
I will post a marked up and annotated version of my submission later
tonight.
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