RE: [ga] Business Constituency

[Steven Heath <Steven.Heath@Optimation.co.nz>]

George Kirikos wrote: 

> Lots of potential problems, though...e.g. which domains to include
> (e.g. is a .com domain equal to a .de domain?)? How about .tv domains?
> (e.g. someone at Verisign could create a billion fake domains, to get
> lots of voting power). Maybe restrict it to the gTLD domains, until
> such time as ICANN is charging a fixed fee per domain across all TLDs?
> (e.g. once .ca holders get charged 25 cents in ICANN fees per year, or
> whatever .com holders will be charged, .ca holders would be eligible to

> have their domains count in the voting)

Why should name holders in a ccTLD pay a TAX to ICANN for ICANN to use it
for non ccTLD issues. The ccTLD's run their own policy and do it by whatever
system they wish. .au has a $11 AUD fee from registry to auDA. .nz has about
a $3 NZD policy 'cost'. 

If, and thats a big if, ICANN actually DID something to update the IANA
records and in fact stopped all the BS around ICP-1 THEN people might talk
about what policy areas _might_ be international and then determine how to
approach them.

A very quick read of the changes to the MOU appears to make ICANN even more
rabid over what it thinks its controls of the ccTLD's will be.

Steven Heath
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