[nc-budget] Invoice for AFNIC services to the DNSO in year 2000
As you will recall, earlier this year, at the request of the Budget Committee, the Names Council approved an expenditure of $59,000 to AFNIC for the services that AFNIC had provided to the DNSO during 2000. The DNSO's actual payment to AFNIC was made contingent upon AFNIC's meeting three conditions, however. In the attached notice, AFNIC advises us that they have met the three conditions and now ask that full payment be made to them. In my judgment, their no-charge service along with the attached documents meets the conditions that we imposed on the payment to them, particularly given that we did not specify any details on these conditions (e.g. we did not make the meeting of these conditions by AFNIC subject to our being satisfied with the details.) and there is no dispute over the fact that the DNSO has owed AFNIC $59,000 for over six months. Since this appears fairly straightforward to me, I will not ask for the Committee's affirmation. However, if any member of the Committee objects to our accepting these AFNIC materials and making payment to AFNIC, then I will ask for a Committee vote. So please let me know by 17 October if you have any objections to making immediate full payment to AFNIC. Roger J. Cochetti Senior Vice President & Chief Policy Officer VeriSign rcochetti@verisign.com 202-973-6600 -----Original Message----- From: Elisabeth Porteneuve [mailto:Elisabeth.Porteneuve@cetp.ipsl.fr] Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 4:48 PM To: rcochetti@verisign.com Cc: Eric BARBRY; jean-yves.babonneau@nic.fr; annie.renard@nic.fr; elisabeth.porteneuve@nic.fr; benoit.guignard@nic.fr Subject: Invoice for AFNIC services to the DNSO in year 2000 To: Roger Cochetti NC Budget Committee Chair, Paris, 26 September 2001 Dear Roger, Please find attached three documents: 1. Invoice for AFNIC services to the DNSO in year 2000 2. Introduction letter related to 3 conditions attached to this invoice 3. A document prepared in July 2001 by Eric Barbry, AFNIC Legal Counsel, stating a nonexclusive transfer of the software and the intellectual property rights to the software developed by myself for DNSO usage. The third document was sent to Louis Touton on 26th July. I am confident these three documents satisfy the request from the Budget Committee presented to AFNIC and myself. Please let me know if any further clarifications are needed. My best regards, Elisabeth Porteneuve Y2000.AFNIC-to-ICANN-letter.doc Y2000.AFNIC-to-ICANN-invoice.doc
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