Verisign not happy at all with Tech Freedom/Heritage-y types:

https://www.scribd.com/document/323899714/Verisign-White-Paper-Response-Letter

On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 8:59 AM, Sam Lanfranco <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> With the little time left between now and the end of the month we should
> focus on strategies for “push back” against Cruz’s “Misguided Cruz
> Maneuvers” objecting to the long planned U.S. government transfer of
> oversight on IANA’s management of the DNS system.
>
> The nastiness and irrational responses of the so-called U.S. Alt-right
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt-right cannot be countered here. They feed
> on ignorance, prejudice and discord. They should be ignored and the focus
> needs to stay on the target, the planned orderly transfer of oversight.
>
> Might it be followed by unanticipated problems? Of course, but it is better
> to deal with them using the mechanisms we have developed for the
> post-transfer reality than to delay, or implement some “beta mode” version
> of transfer.  It is a false assumption to believe that we will better
> discover and deal unanticipated problems in some temporary beta mode than we
> will working with the mechanisms so many of us have spent so much time
> refining over the past year and a half.
>
> The tasks are simple. Complete the oversight transfer and use the embedded
> mechanisms to watch ICANN like a hawk, to fulfill the promises of an orderly
> and effective oversight transfer.
>
> Sam L.

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Cheers,

McTim
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