[wg-review] [ICANN] Realty or reality check/cheque for ICANN

[Sotiropoulos <sotiris@hermesnetwork.com>]

Comments made by Peter de Blanc, chair AdCom [ccTLD constituency's Administrative Committee] at the end of the 14 November IANA - ccTLD Public 
Forum :

"All of that notwithstanding, we have achieved a consensus, almost -- certainly unanimous of those [ccTLDs] here and, again, with more inputs from 
email [from ccTLD reps not attending]... Except for a couple of points, we've achieved a consensus that ccTLDs are willing in fact to have a contract 
with ICANN guaranteeing a fixed payment on an annual basis, with the amount of that fixed payment to be reviewed every two or three years; and that, 
also, we have consensus on best practices, and on our general desire to work with ICANN in a way where the real or perceived benefit of having two 
hundred-plus country codes lending credibility, international credibility to ICANN in terms of its organization and its relationship with the US Department of 
Commerce. We are seriously interested in doing that, we have a seriously active organization now, and we don't want to use the nuclear arsenal 
[i.e.,establish an independent root]. We would like to work within the process, be part of the process, have the representation, and make ICANN solid -- 
and if that takes $2 million, that's fine too."

The rules of the game will either change with ICANN's blessing or without it... it's really their choice at this point.  If I were a betting man, I'd get ready for 
the fallout!  Nuclear winter is a bummer... 

Oh well, won't be much left around afterwards, *except* us `little people'... whose money will still be the honeypot for all of them.  Hmm.  It's good to have 
friends in this world... especially when you know who they'll ultimately be.  As Rodney King put it: "Can't we all just get along"?

Sotiris Sotiropoulos
          Hermes Network, Inc.




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