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.net vote stalls
June 2005
A controversial vote to give VeriSign control
of the .net registry for the next six years has
stalled.
A special meeting of the ICANN Board on Wednesday
- the second in a month, both with .net top of the
agenda - failed to reach agreement after a number
of members abstained and the necessary quorum to
pass a resolution wasn't reached.
The vote, called for by Hagen Hultzsch and
seconded by chairman Vint Cerf, sought the
re-selection of VeriSign in running .net. The duo
along with a further three Board members voted in
favour but two voted against and four abstained. A
further four were not present.
Under ICANN bylaws a majority of Board members
should be present for the meeting to be legitimate
and a majority of those present need to vote in
favour for a resolution to be carried. In this
case, five were in favour but six were against or
abstained.
The vote failure comes after a hotly contested
process of selection for a new .net registry
owner. As we exclusively revealed last month,
ICANN had made a large number of changes to the
public consultation process, all of which favoured
VeriSign. The company chosen by ICANN to carry out
the evaluation, Telcordia, also has close ties
with VeriSign.
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