Re: [ga-roots] How the sky might fall

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

WXW and all,

William X. Walsh wrote:

> Hello Jefsey,
>
> Tuesday, June 05, 2001, 4:29:17 AM, Jefsey Morfin wrote:
> > All boils down to Mike Roberts'  K$ 50. Would the iCANN have
> > carry its job as a per a decent reading of the WhitePaper/ByLaws
> > getting sponsoring as an educational, research or charity service
> > to the community and made TLD registration paid at cost ($ 20
> > as documented by the Linux community) it would financially
> > flourish and none of the current problems would exist.
>
> If you want to have any credibility to your arguments, Jefsey, you
> have to at least make an effort to be realistic.

  I for one did not see anything in Jefsey's comments that would indicate
a modicum of unrealistic though...

>
>
> Personally, I don't find the $50,000 application fee to be as
> excessive as others have.

  That's fine.  The Congress and Senate committees didn't see it you way
WXW.  But thank you for sharing the revolution with us anyway...

>
>
> But a minimum set of both business, financial, and technical standards
> must exist, and before granting the application, those issues must be
> reviewed, investigated, followed up on, etc.

  Business standards change rather regularly in the fast moving business
world.  Financial standards do as well, although not quite a quickly.
Technical standards change on a average of every 9 months os so
in the IT industry.

>
>
> The costs of doing that are not cheap, and an application fee such as
> that does serve a purpose in setting a minimum standard for financial
> solvency.  If the $50,000 fee is too much, then perhaps that company
> is not well suited financially to be running a registry.

  This is a nice statement but has little to do with a non-refundable
US $50k fee being charged by  a non-profit corp. (ICANN in this case),
for simple consideration for running a registry for a TLD.  We have
already
seen in fact that other non-ICANN registries can perform the task
rather nicely and didn't need to pony up a nonrefundable US $50k
fee to show their competence or ability...

>
>
> While I don't see the $50,000 as necessarily excessive, I would be
> open to backing a proposal for a lower fee in the next round provided
> that a REALISTIC fee was proposed, and all of the other issues were
> addressed (minimum standards).

  Any fee for such a process of determination is unwarranted and not
fiscally supportable for a Non-Profit corp. who's financial support
is mandated by law to be at least 33% donation based under
501 (C3) status.

>
>
> The alt.root people don't particularly like that argument, since in
> their book being able to get one person to add a couple lines of
> config in a nameserver has been their only requirement, but it would
> help their credibility if they would recognize that minimum standards
> must exist, and help to come up with a REASONABLE set of standards.

  They have already done so.  Are doing so now, and have a better track
record for availability than does NSI/VRSN.

>
>
> If a company doesn't have $250,000 or more in liquid capital or line
> of credit, I don't think they should even be considered.

  I agree that at least this amount should be available.  But it should
not
be a requirement.

>  They lack
> the necessary financial means to insure the operation and development
> of their registry.

  Just because they don't have what you propose ($250k) in liquid or
otherwise available capitol before applying for a registry accreditation,
doesn't meant that they can't quickly aquire it after such a registry
is in fact delegated, and therefore shouldn't mean that they are not
fiscally sound enough to run a registry in the early stages...

>
>
> --
> Best regards,
> William X Walsh
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