Re[2]: [ga-roots] How the sky might fall

[Patrick Greenwell <patrick@stealthgeeks.net>]

On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, William X. Walsh wrote:

> Hello Jefsey,
>
> Tuesday, June 05, 2001, 4:29:17 AM, Jefsey Morfin wrote:
> > All boils down to Mike Roberts'  K$ 50. Would the iCANN have
> > carry its job as a per a decent reading of the WhitePaper/ByLaws
> > getting sponsoring as an educational, research or charity service
> > to the community and made TLD registration paid at cost ($ 20
> > as documented by the Linux community) it would financially
> > flourish and none of the current problems would exist.
>
> If you want to have any credibility to your arguments, Jefsey, you
> have to at least make an effort to be realistic.
>
> Personally, I don't find the $50,000 application fee to be as
> excessive as others have.
>
> But a minimum set of both business, financial, and technical standards
> must exist, and before granting the application, those issues must be
> reviewed, investigated, followed up on, etc.

I have to disagree with this. ICANN was set up to be a *technical
coordination* body, not the decider of business models and financial
capabilities. What is necessary in order to excute on that mandate is
effective escrow. Effective escrow of data would limit the exposure to an
interruption of service that a business failure might cause, while keeping
ICANN out of peoples bank accounts and business plans areas which they
have no business being in.


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                               Patrick Greenwell
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