Re: [ga-roots] ICANN is well aware that "multiple roots arepossible and coming."

[k@widgital.com (Kristy McKee)]

Yes, and if the Service Provider hires ICANN or another group to collect 
payment for services; they are entitled to a fee for the service to cover 
the costs - I hope someone who understands Not-for- Profits climes in here...

At 10:40 AM 5/23/2001 -0700, you wrote:
>Ms. McKee,
>
>The judgment call you lay out so logically below is easy. And I therefor would
>suggest that we could all reach consensus on your proposition. Let us use 
>that as
>a basis for discussing complications.
>
>Non-profits with government monopoly status should use a different revenue 
>model
>than fee for services.
>(here we either agree or we do not - I believe the law agrees with this
>statement)
>
>In the use of most public resources, the contracting concessionaire must 
>provide
>the resource at below market value, but they get it for free, in a sense as in
>ICANN does not pay DoC.
>
>Now here we may have serious disagreement.  Activity in ICANN should be free.
>Entities which obtain profits from contracts with ICANN should support all
>interaction with ICANN which is not for profit.
>So should a ccTLD pay ICANN, absolutely not! They should pay APNIC (or 
>whoever)
>but not ICANN.
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Kristy McKee wrote:
>
> > Thanks, Bruce,
> >
> > At 09:52 AM 5/23/2001 -0500, Bruce James wrote:
> > >From:   http://www.lextext.com/icann/index.html
> > >
> > >
> > >ccTLD Minutes From Melbourne. The ccTLD constituency posted its 
> minutes from
> > >two recent meetings yesterday, continuing its excellent practice of
> > >providing detailed minutes that ascribe statements to specific 
> persons. The
> > >notes are too detailed to summarize here, but a couple of points were
> > >especially interesting.
> > >
> > >The minutes from the ccTLDs meetings in Melbourne show that a consensus
> > >funding model for ICANN is still difficult to find. For example, the
> > >representative from .uk, one of the largest ccTLDs, stated that his 
> registry
> > >would never sign a contract with ICANN that tied funding to numbers of
> > >domain name registrations. As to what the ccTLDs are receiving in 
> return for
> > >their payments, many stated that the contract should be a fee for
> > >services -- specifically root service.
> >
> > The cost to deliver a good stable root service is tangible and
> > evidence-able.  Why would anyone not agree to pay someone else to provide
> > root service if 1) they could do a better job that "we" could and 2) the
> > cost for service was understandable, as in "our" Auditor could see the
> > value of using the service and projecting the cost in three to five years
> > for the same service.
> >
> > >On the subject of root service, one interesting exchange revealed that 
> ICANN
> > >is well aware that "multiple roots are possible and coming." Part of the
> > >value proposition pitched to the ccTLDs for signing contracts with 
> ICANN was
> > >that they would help make ICANN's "a legitimate root," which the internet
> > >community could rely on "as a domain name system starting point."
> > >
> > >The ccTLDs also posted the minutes from their May 3rd AdCom meeting,
> > >including the agenda for their upcoming meetings in Stockholm May 31st and
> > >June 1st.
> > >-- May 23, 2001 --
> > >
> > >/Bruce
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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