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

[Harald Alvestrand <Harald@Alvestrand.no>]

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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