Tucows: “In announcing their proposed settlement to the various lawsuits between Verisign and ICANN, the ICANN staff claim to be clearing the way for a “...new and productive public/private partnership” between Verisign and ICANN “...for the benefit of the internet community.”
The notion that this settlement proposal will benefit anyone but the ICANN staff and Verisign Inc. should be rejected.”
I’ve posted Tucows formal submission to the ICANN comments forum regarding the proposed settlement of the various litigation with Verisign. The brief summary is that we’re not happy with the agreements and look forward to a more rational discussion that includes the ICANN community, users of the internet and the rest of the stakeholders that the ICANN staff, Verisign and United States Government seem to have forgotten when crafting these plans.
I’ve included a PDF version of our submission as an RSS enclosure with this post – which might make this post the first Policycast.
I also encourage you to submit your own comments if you haven’t already. The key people that can stop this action are:
ICANN
settlement-comments@icann.orgCarlos Gutierrez, Secretary
United States Department of Commerce
cgutierrez@doc.govMichael Gallagher, Assistant Secretary,
United States National Telecommunications Infrastructure Administration
mgallagher@ntia.doc.gov
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