RE: [ga] FYI: Staff Draft towards Mission Statement

["Peter de Blanc" <pdeblanc@usvi.net>]

Right- I forgot that Kent changed jobs recently. Must be "old-timer's"
syndrome.

Peter

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-ga@dnso.org [mailto:owner-ga@dnso.org] On Behalf Of Jeff
Williams
Sent: Saturday, March 09, 2002 1:14 AM
To: Peter de Blanc
Cc: 'Per Koelle'; 'Kent Crispin'; ga@dnso.org; crispin@icann.org
Subject: Re: [ga] FYI: Staff Draft towards Mission Statement


Peter and all assembly members,

  Perhaps some have already forgotten.  Kent has recently
been hired by ICANN in a technical capacity.  This would
tend to be a motivation for him to "Pull the ICANN staff
Line" so to speak.  This of course is not a change for
Kent, as he has been a long time supporter (Brown nose?)
when it comes to the ICANN staff and most of the
BoD members for quite some time.  Only now of course
it is official.  >;)

Peter de Blanc wrote:

> Kent, I agree with Per Koelle-
>
> Again, I speak of ccTLDs, not gTLDs, ICANN-approved registrars, and 
> other "by contract" situations.
>
> There are only about 244 ccTLDs possible, according to iso3166, and we

> know that many of those are not operational.
>
> Peter de Blanc
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ga@dnso.org [mailto:owner-ga@dnso.org] On Behalf Of Per 
> Koelle
> Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 11:40 AM
> To: Kent Crispin
> Cc: ga@dnso.org
> Subject: Re: [ga] FYI: Staff Draft towards Mission Statement
>
> On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Kent Crispin wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 06:32:38AM -0500, Peter de Blanc wrote:
> > > It is truely amazing that something once  done by volunteers, like

> > > building and co-ordinating the operation of the global Internet 
> > > prior to, say 1995 or 1996,
> >
> > 1) In 95/96 there was a paid IANA staff, though it is true that a 
> > lot of work was done by people who were paid under rather 
> > non-specific contracts.
> [SNIP]
>
> >
> > > What is even MORE amazing is that the US $ 5 million  is just the 
> > > tip of the iceberg.
> >
> > No, it is not amazing at all.  If anything, given the demands made 
> > on ICANN, it is amazingly *cheap*.  As an end user, this is working 
> > out to around $.20/domain name per year (3% of the dominant 
> > wholesale
> > cost) to pay for the global coordination functions that ICANN
> > provides.
>
> Dear Kent,
>
> This is rubbish (and you af all should know),
>
> As far as TLD's is concerned, ICANN/IANA is (only) managing a database

> with
> +250 entries !!!!
> I (for one) run a similar thing with +370.000 entries for around USD 3

> mil.!
>
> Regards
> Per Kølle
> ..DK
>
> >
> >
> > --
> > Kent Crispin                               "Be good, and you will be
> > kent@songbird.com                           lonesome." -- Mark Twain
> > --
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