Re[3]: [ga-roots] How the sky might fall

["William X. Walsh" <william@userfriendly.com>]

Hello Patrick,

Tuesday, June 05, 2001, 9:06:03 AM, Patrick Greenwell wrote:

> 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.

But, both of those things have a direct and potentially major effect
on the technical issues.


> 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.

That alone is not sufficient.

I'd add another requirement.  A mandatory $100,000 bond that could be
used to contract with a third party for the operation of the TLD
Registry should the registry operator be unwilling or unable (for
whatever reason) to continue operating the registry.

A mandatory clause that will assign all rights to ICANN for
reassignment to the data and all other "intellectual and other
property" which may be required to continue the stable continued
operation of the registry.

-- 
Best regards,
William X Walsh
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