Re[2]: [ga-roots] How the sky might fall

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

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.

The costs of doing that are not cheap, and an application fee such as
that does serve a purpose in setting a minimum standard for financial
solvency.  If the $50,000 fee is too much, then perhaps that company
is not well suited financially to be running a registry.

While I don't see the $50,000 as necessarily excessive, I would be
open to backing a proposal for a lower fee in the next round provided
that a REALISTIC fee was proposed, and all of the other issues were
addressed (minimum standards).

The alt.root people don't particularly like that argument, since in
their book being able to get one person to add a couple lines of
config in a nameserver has been their only requirement, but it would
help their credibility if they would recognize that minimum standards
must exist, and help to come up with a REASONABLE set of standards.

If a company doesn't have $250,000 or more in liquid capital or line
of credit, I don't think they should even be considered.  They lack
the necessary financial means to insure the operation and development
of their registry.


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