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

[Jefsey Morfin <jefsey@wanadoo.fr>]

What else? Let me add a specification for financial soundness check : to 
hire a Member of DNSO/GA $ 250.000 a year.
Jefsey


On 18:13 05/06/01, William X. Walsh said:
>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
>mailto:william@userfriendly.com
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