they get a back-door amendment to their contract, with no public process, that extends it and allows them to charge more in the future On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, Florian Weimer wrote:
* Chris Woodfield:
Said the flowerpot: "Oh no, not again..."
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8DEL2TO7.htm? campaign_id=apn_tech_down&chan=tc
I don't understand what VeriSign receives in return for their kowtow (under the agreement, they basically waive any right to criticize ICANN's role).
Two possible explanations:
* ICANN signalled a positive outcome of a future Sitefinder review under the new process.
* ICANN promised to grant VeriSign the DNSSEC root and .ARPA maintenance without tender (the "Root Server Management Transition Agreement" goes into that direction; actually, the .ARPA stuff is the interesting one).
* VeriSign has recognized that they couldn't win in court, and suddenly want to play nice.
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