L'Icann accepte l'accord proposé par Verisign

Stephan — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 10:41:00 +0100

L'Icann, quelques jours seulement après avoir indiqué un report de sa décision pour étudier davantage le texte de la proposition de Verisign (et ce suite aux protestations de l'ensemble des bureaux d'enregistrement), vient de communiquer sur le fait qu'ils acceptaient par 9 voix contre 5 cet accord qui est très loin de réunir un consensus !!!

Une autoroute (exemple choisi) vient de s'ouvrir pour Verisign, contractuellement libre d'augmenter ses prix et virtuellement propriétaire à vie de l'extension .com ...

Certes, la lecture de cet accord sera forcément multiple, mais une chose est sûre : aucune partie n'en sort grandie au regard de l'interêt général.

Le texte en anglais pour aller plus loin :

From: http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-28feb06.htm

ICANN Board Approves VeriSign Settlement Agreements

28 February 2006

Marina del Rey, California, 28 February 2006: Today, ICANN's Board of Directors approved, by a majority vote, a set of agreements settling a long time dispute between ICANN and VeriSign, the registry operator for the .COM registry.

These settlement documents include a new registry agreement relating to the operation of the .COM registry. The new .COM registry agreement will now proceed to the U.S. Department of Commerce for final approval, and the entire settlement is dependent upon this approval before it is finalized. USDOC approval is required due to the unique history of the .COM generic top-level domain and it is the only gTLD which requires such approval. If approved, this settlement will clear the way for a new and productive relationship between ICANN and VeriSign facilitating ICANN's stewardship and technical coordination of the Internet's domain name system.

ICANN's Board voted 9 to 5 in favor of the settlement agreements with one director abstaining. Affirmative votes were cast by the following Board Members: Vint Cerf (Chairman), Alejandro Pisanty (Vice-Chairman), Mouhamet Diop, Demi Getschko, Hagen Hultzsch, Veni Markovski, Vanda Scartezini, Paul Twomey (President and CEO), and Hualin Qian. Directors who voted against the approval of the settlement documents were: Raimundo Beca, Susan Crawford, Joichi Ito, Njeri Rionge, and Peter Dengate Thrush. Director Michael Palage abstained. Statements by Board members on their votes will be posted on the ICANN website within the next two days.

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L'Icann accepte l'accord proposé par Verisign