RE: [registrars] DNSO fees and constituency dues

["Richard Forman" <rforman@register.com>]

I believe that setting membership fees of $5,000 per year per registrar
would be reaonsable.  Underfunding our representative group would not be
beneficial and in the long term would hurt our efforts.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Erica Roberts [mailto:erica.roberts@melbourneit.com.au]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 1999 6:44 PM
> To: Richard Forman; Richard Lindsay; Registrar Constituency
> Subject: RE: [registrars] DNSO fees and constituency dues
>
>
>  Melbourne IT would be comfortable paying annual dues along the lines
> suggested.  I expect this will be a key issue for the Names Council very
> soon so it would be useful to clarify the position of the
> registrars before
> the next ICANN meeting.
>
> Erica Roberts
> Manager, Corporate Relations
> Melbourne IT
>
> Original Message-----
> From: owner-registrars@dnso.org
> [mailto:owner-registrars@dnso.org]On Behalf
> Of Richard Forman
> Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 1999 11:11 PM
> To: Richard Lindsay; Registrar Constituency
> Subject: RE: [registrars] DNSO fees and constituency dues
>
>
> I believe that we discussed this with Becky and we should modify the ICANN
> Accreditation Agreement so that registrars are required to
> provide a minimum
> level of funding to the DNSO.  We would be completely in support of that
> proposal.
>
>
> Richard D. Forman
> President & CEO
> Register.com, Inc.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-registrars@dnso.org [mailto:owner-registrars@dnso.org]On
> > Behalf Of Richard Lindsay
> > Sent: Monday, December 13, 1999 8:41 PM
> > To: Registrar Constituency
> > Subject: [registrars] DNSO fees and constituency dues
> >
> >
> > Fellow Registrars,
> >
> > This issue came up in Los Angeles, but we haven't addressed it
> > yet fully.  As many of you know, each constituency was asked
> > to commit $5,000 for webcasting and connectivity costs for the
> > DNSO to date.  We did not address exactly how to come up with
> > these funds yet though.
> >
> > I would like to propose that the Registrar Constituency set up
> > membership fees in order to fund required DNSO costs, and to
> > facilitate meetings in the future (i.e. arrange for teleconference
> > connectivity, pay for the constituency teleconferences etc.)  How
> > would the members feel about annual dues of $500 to $1000?
> > I realize there has been some debate regarding registrars paying
> > the lions share of the ICANN budget, and being required to support
> > the DNSO budget as well, but the DNSO budget is considered
> > separate of the ICANN budget.
> >
> > Anyway, I can speak for my company that we would not have
> > any problems with annual dues (as most organizations do) but
> > how does the rest of the membership feel about this?
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Richard
> > --
> > _/_/_/interQ Incorporated
> > _/_/_/System Division
> > _/_/_/Director and General Manager
> > _/_/_/Richard A. S. Lindsay
> >
> >
>