Re: [ga-roots] ICANN is well aware that "multiple roots are possible and coming."

[k@widgital.com (Kristy McKee)]

Thanks, Bruce,

At 09:52 AM 5/23/2001 -0500, Bruce James wrote:
>From:   http://www.lextext.com/icann/index.html
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>ccTLD Minutes From Melbourne. The ccTLD constituency posted its minutes from
>two recent meetings yesterday, continuing its excellent practice of
>providing detailed minutes that ascribe statements to specific persons. The
>notes are too detailed to summarize here, but a couple of points were
>especially interesting.
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>The minutes from the ccTLDs meetings in Melbourne show that a consensus
>funding model for ICANN is still difficult to find. For example, the
>representative from .uk, one of the largest ccTLDs, stated that his registry
>would never sign a contract with ICANN that tied funding to numbers of
>domain name registrations. As to what the ccTLDs are receiving in return for
>their payments, many stated that the contract should be a fee for
>services -- specifically root service.

The cost to deliver a good stable root service is tangible and 
evidence-able.  Why would anyone not agree to pay someone else to provide 
root service if 1) they could do a better job that "we" could and 2) the 
cost for service was understandable, as in "our" Auditor could see the 
value of using the service and projecting the cost in three to five years 
for the same service.

>On the subject of root service, one interesting exchange revealed that ICANN
>is well aware that "multiple roots are possible and coming." Part of the
>value proposition pitched to the ccTLDs for signing contracts with ICANN was
>that they would help make ICANN's "a legitimate root," which the internet
>community could rely on "as a domain name system starting point."
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>The ccTLDs also posted the minutes from their May 3rd AdCom meeting,
>including the agenda for their upcoming meetings in Stockholm May 31st and
>June 1st.
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>/Bruce
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