Re: [ga] FYI: Staff Draft towards Mission Statement

[Sotiris Sotiropoulos <sotiris@hermesnetwork.com>]

Hugh Blair wrote:
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Sotiris Sotiropoulos
> >
> > Hugh Blair wrote:
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > On Behalf Of Sotiris Sotiropoulos
> > > >
> > > > Kent Crispin wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > No, it is not amazing at all.  If anything, given the demands made on
> > > > > ICANN, it is amazingly *cheap*.  As an end user, this is working out to
> > > > > around $.20/domain name per year (3% of the dominant wholesale cost) to
> > > > > pay for the global coordination functions that ICANN provides.
> > > >
> > > > Interesting that Mr. Crispin defines "end user" as domain
> > > > name registrants.
> > >
> > > And yet we get no voice. Yep, that sure makes sense.
> >
> > Oh, but the plan is to give every Tom, Dick, and Harriet
> > with an email address a token voice... doesn't that
> > satisfy?
> 
> Sotiris, you're being too restrictive. The 'plan' is to give every *person* a
> token voice. Let's not crowd out those that surf the 'net in libraries, see
> billboards with dot com addresses, or read magazines that mention
> the 'net. They -also- should be included.  Just having a hotmail/yahoo
> email address isn't enough, the whole world should be involved. Not too
> directly though, we don't want to slow down any proccesses at ICANN.
> <grin>

ALM: recyclable revenue scheme for Big Brother ICANN?

-- 
Sincerely,

Sotiris Sotiropoulos
	Hermes Network Inc.
	Toronto, Canada

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