Historical Resolution Tracking Feature » 2001-04-02 - Revision to Agreements with VeriSign

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2001-04-02 - Revision to Agreements with VeriSign

Resolution of the ICANN Board

Topic:

Revision to VeriSign Agreements

Summary:

Board reassesses revisions of the VeriSign agreements after an opportunity for public comment and authorizes the President to enter into the revised agreements with VeriSign on behalf of ICANN.

Category:

gTLDs

Meeting Date:

Mon, 2 Apr 2001

Resolution Number:

01.47, 01.48

URL for Resolution:

http://www.icann.org/en/groups/board/documents/minutes-02apr01-en.htm

Status:

Complete

Implementation Actions:

Enter into the proposed agreements with VeriSign.
- Responsible entity: President
- Due date: None provided
- Completion date: 25 May 2001

Resolution Text:

(Adopted 12-3, with one abstension. Vint Cerf, Ivan Moura Campos, Jonathan Cohen, Phil Davidson, Masanobu Katoh, Hans Kraaijenbrink, Sang-Hyon Kyong, Stuart Lynn, Jun Murai, Alejandro Pisanty, Nii Quaynor, and Linda S. Wilson voted in favor. Amadeu Abril i Abril, Karl Auerbach, and Andy Mueller-Maguhn voted against. Ken Fockler abstained. Helmut Schink had left the call by the time of the vote.)

Whereas, a proposal has been presented to the Board for various revisions in the agreements among ICANN, Network Solutions, Inc., and the United States Department of Commerce that were approved on 4 November 1999 in resolutions 99.132 and 99.133 and were signed on 10 November 1999;

Whereas, the proposal was forwarded to all three supporting organizations with a request for comments;

Whereas, in resolution 01.22 the Board requested all members of the Internet community, including the Names Council and any of the constituencies and other participants in the Domain Name Supporting Organization, to provide comments on the substantive merits of the proposal no later than 31 March 2001;

Whereas, on 9 March 2001 the Protocol Supporting Organization notified the Board that it had considered the proposal only with regard to potential protocol-related technical issues as a result of splitting .com, .net and .org into three registries, and saw no problems with this approach providing that the stability of the DNS resolution is protected;

Whereas, on 30 March 2001 the Names Council of the Domain Name Supporting Organization (DNSO) forwarded a four-part resolution accompanied by statements of the seven DNSO constituencies and participants in the DNSO general assembly;

Whereas, numerous comments of the Internet community have been received on ICANN's web-based public comment forum, by e-mail, and otherwise;

Whereas, in response to the comments ICANN has asked VeriSign for improvement of the proposed agreements through the addition of some text changes and other related undertakings between ICANN and VeriSign;

Whereas, VeriSign has stated its commitment to make those improvements;

Whereas, the Board has carefully considered the proposal in connection with the input from the supporting organizations and Internet community
and the improvements agreed by VeriSign and finds that acceptance of the proposal is necessary and appropriate to further ICANN's purposes;

Resolved [01.47] that the President is authorized on behalf of the Corporation to sign the proposed agreements with VeriSign as presented, with suitable revisions and additions to the provisions of the agreements to reflect the text changes and additional commitments set forth in the posted correspondence with Stratton Sclavos and with any further corrections and modifications consistent with the proposal that the President determines are appropriate, such signing to be subject to any necessary approvals of the U.S. Department of Commerce;

Further resolved [01.48], the President is authorized to take such actions as appropriate to implement the agreements.

Additional Information:

ICANN and VeriSign, Inc., entered into an Unsponsored Registry Agreement under which VeriSign operates the .com top-level domain on 25 May 2001. The agreement and its appendices may be viewed at: http://www.icann.org/en/tlds/agreements/verisign/com-index-25may01.htm.
ICANN and VeriSign, Inc., entered into an Unsponsored Registry Agreement under which VeriSign operates the .net top-level domain on 25 May 2001. The agreement and its appendices may be viewed at: http://www.icann.org/en/tlds/agreements/verisign/net-index.htm.
ICANN and VeriSign, Inc., entered into an Unsponsored Registry Agreement under which VeriSign operates the .org top-level domain on 25 May 2001. The agreement and its appendices may be viewed at: http://www.icann.org/en/tlds/agreements/verisign/org-index.htm.
Because of the new VeriSign-ICANN agreements, NSI and ICANN terminated the Registration Agreement they entered into with each other on November 10, 1999. The termination was completed on 25 May 2001 and can be found at: http://www.icann.org/en/tlds/agreements/verisign/termination-nsi-agreement-25may01.htm.
The agreements have funding considerations.