RE: $200 million (was [ga] Draft Resolution)

["Gomes, Chuck" <cgomes@verisign.com>]

It is my understanding that VeriSign would control the spending of the
funds.  I am not aware of any companies that would commit to spending of
$200M and let everyone in the world decide how it would be spent.

Also, since this will be my fifth post today, let me respond to a comment by
Peter de Blanc earlier today.  He implied that VeriSign would make the
investment regardless of whether Option A or Option B was chosen.  I think I
can safely say that VeriSign would not commit to invest $200M in R&D and
infrastructure improvements to the .com, .net and .org registries if there
is considerable uncertainty about our future role with those registries.  We
are willing to commit to that level of investment with the added certainty
that Option B provides.  I also believe that this is the way any successful
business would behave.

Chuck (signing off until Thursday)

 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Harald Alvestrand [mailto:Harald@Alvestrand.no] 
Sent:	Wednesday, March 21, 2001 5:18 PM
To:	Gomes, Chuck
Cc:	ga@dnso.org
Subject:	RE: $200 million (was [ga] Draft Resolution)

At 15:17 21/03/2001 -0500, Gomes, Chuck wrote:
>Let me first of all reiterate what I just said in a response to Michael
>Froomkin: :  "Under the existing agreement, there is a commitment for $0.
>Under the new agreements, there is a commitment for $200M."

one thing that is unclear in my mind is who would control the allocation of 
the USD 200M.
We tried this once before (the "domain name tax" that was struck down in 
the early days of paying for DNS names). I've got projects I could think of 
offhand that would eat around 20M, and I think they would benefit the 
Internet - but why should anyone believe my judgment?


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