[ga] Do the Math...Follow the Money...720 people...are **very happy** with the status quo...

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

From: "Joop Teernstra" <terastra@terabytz.co.nz>
> At 04:31 p.m. 15/05/2003, Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law wrote:
> >Again, what incentive does ICANN have to bite the hands that feed it?
> 
> In a political environment were representation comes with the taxation, 
> that incentive comes from the fear of being voted out of office.
> 

Do the Math...Follow the Money...

With 30,000,000 domain names at $6 per name per year the annual gross revenue is $180,000,000.

At $250,000 per year, per insider, that is 720 people who are **very happy** with the status quo...

http://www.dailychanges.com/
http://www.registrarstats.com/

As long as people use the 0:0 .ARPA address space, they will be subject to...
http://www.iana.org/assignments/as-numbers
http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space
http://www.ietf.org//mail-archive/ietf/Current/msg18554.html
From: Bob Braden <braden@ISI.EDU>
"Vint Cerf was working the Levers of Power at ARPA."
http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/200212/msg00058.html
From: Dave Farber dave@farber.net
"I still have the button and still have the memories..."
http://www.bizforward.com/wdc/issues/2002-07/forward40/myforward40.shtml
by Vint Cerf
Senior vice president of Internet Architecture and Technology,
WorldCom
"It gets hard to pick out people who have a lot of impact. The people who have money left [are important]."
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Jim Fleming
http://www.IPv8.info


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