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An Example of Why Transparency is Good for ICANN

by Bret Fausett at 10:04AM (PST) on November 18, 2005 | Permanent Link | Digg This

Expectation (based on publicly available documents): Verisign would submit a proposal for the renewal of the .COM registry agreement no earlier than November 10, 2005 and no later than May 10, 2006. The ICANN Board would have up to six months to review the renewal proposal.

What Actually Happened: Verisign and/or ICANN proposed a renewal of the .COM Registry Agreement at least as early as February, 2005. A tentatively agreed renewal contract, negotiated between Verisign and ICANN Staff, was posted for public comment on October 24, 2005 -- two weeks before Verisign was even allowed to submit an initial renewal proposal -- accompanied by a twenty day comment period (subsequently extended).

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Re: An Example of Why Transparency is Good for ICANN

by Froomkin on Sat 19 Nov 2005 09:20 PM PST | Profile | Permanent Link

Standard operating procedure.

Can you name an important decision made by ICANN involving anything where money was at stake in which all the rules were properly followed?

Re: An Example of Why Transparency is Good for ICANN

by Bret Fausett on Sun 20 Nov 2005 12:02 PM PST | Profile | Permanent Link

Hmm. Some things worked better than others, but you're right, almost everything has bit a bit ad hoc. What if I proposed the UDRP development process and the .ORG rebid as candidates for the category of things that worked well?