[council] VRSN Settlment Documents Posted for Public Comment

[GNSO.SECRETARIAT@GNSO.ICANN.ORG]

[To: liaison6c[at]gnso.icann.org; council[at]gnso.icann.org]
[To: ga[at]gnso.icann.org; announce[at]gnso.icann.org]


Please be informed that ICANN Posts Revised Settlement Agreement
http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-29jan06.htm

ICANN today posted a newly revised proposed set of agreements
http://icann.org/topics/verisign-settlement.htm#amended_agreements 
which, if approved, will settle all pending litigation with VeriSign. 
The proposed agreement documents are being posted for public comment in 
order to inform the Board's deliberations; the proposed settlement 
remains subject to final approval or disapproval of the ICANN Board. 29 
January 2006.

A full description of the history of the settlement negotiations, the 
settlement documents, and the issues raised in public fora can be found 
at http://www.icann.org/topics/verisign-settlement.htm .
This summary includes clean and red-lined versions of the amended 
agreements. ICANN has also published a matrix summary of Revisions to 
the Settlement and Registry Agreements.
http://www.icann.org/topics/vrsn-settlement/revision-matrix-29jan06.pdf


Address to submit a comment regarding the revised agreements:
revised-settlement at icann.org

Comments regarding the revised agreements may be viewed at:
http://forum.icann.org/lists/revised-settlement/

Comment period will close 20 February 2005, at 12:00 noon, UTC

Glen de Saint Géry
GNSO Secretariat - ICANN
gnso.secretariat[at]gnso.icann.org
http://gnso.icann.org