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More criticism piled on .Net report
April 2005
The furore surrounding the report on .net
ownership has intensified with another highly
critical assessment by one of the bidders, and
ICANN sticking to its guns.
CORE++ has joined Denic and Sentan in condemning
the report, its evaluators, Telcordia, and the
decision-making process. The depth of anger and
repeated calls for an investigation has finally
sparked ICANN into giving an official response on
the saga at its conference in Argentina in an
effort to calm the situation.
CORE++'s letter is the most in-depth and
thoughtful of all the responses so far but it is
no less critical. The report is accused for the
fourth time of being "seriously flawed" to the
extent that it cannot be used as the deciding
factor in .net's ownership. It also takes issue
several times with higher rankings given to
VeriSign.
In the same way that Denic was furious that it was
wrongly marked down by Telcordia's still-anonymous
evaluation team on what is says is false
information, CORE++ is equally angry that it was
given a "red" ranking and subjected to severe and
incorrect criticism within the report. It states
that the evaluators must simply have misunderstood
what it had told them and goes on to explain why
the "entirely inappropriate" red ranking is wrong.
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