[ga] "...someone at ICANN will say up-front, that a consensus is not needed..." ?

["Jim Fleming" <JimFleming@ameritech.net>]

http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/registrars/Arc02/msg01325.html
"...someone at ICANN will say up-front, that a consensus is not needed..."
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ICANN is a small company (supposedly non-profit) located in the State of California.
ICANN does what it pleases. People and companies donate money (willingly?) to ICANN.
Non-Profits live on the donations they receive. As long as people and companies donate,
the non-profit company survives and pays the employees $250,000 per year to collect the
donations. One can not fault 10, 20, 30 or more people from sitting around all day, doing
largely nothing, and collecting their daily fees. With $10,000,000 per year, there can be 40
people supported in the life-style they desire. Each of the so-called RIRs have essentially
the same model. It all is based on the 0:0 .ARPA allocations and *.IN-ADDR.ARPA names.
http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space

It should not be surprising that 40 people will always be ready to step forward to sing the
praises of their non-prophet venture and how the good of the "community" is served.
http://www.arin.net/mailing_lists/ppml/1671.html

The clueless U.S. Government bureaucrats have decided (or know no better) to take advice
from ICANN in selecting what TLDs they do not censor. The world is routing around that.
It is an embarrassment to the American public, to have such illiterate government officials.
One can only hope that this will change, as future generations of children become better
educated, become elected, and hire educated employees. In the interim, the world has to
live with the mis-guided decisions of a few bimbo lobbyists who dominate the D.C. beltway.
People can travel (waste their time) several times per year to see them on display.

Jim Fleming
http://www.DOT-BIZ.com


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