On 19/01/2008, Vittorio Bertola <vb@bertola.eu> wrote:

Adam Peake ha scritto:
> Personal preference, I'd much prefer any cash to
> be used for developing nations, example support
> for ccTLDs (technical excellence in all domains,
> i.e. "Preserving and enhancing the operational
> stability, reliability, security, and global
> interoperability of the Internet.")

I'd be extremely concerned if ICANN started taking the attitude that it
has the right to extract arbitrarily high amounts of money from
registrants to fund activities that are not directly connected with its
own operations and mission. I'm fine with ~$0.20 per domain, I'm fine
with supporting developing country ccTLDs or the IGF (or the At Large ;)
if there's enough coming from it, but no one tasked ICANN with being the
Treasure Ministry of the Internet, let alone deciding how to
redistribute money from the "undeserving" to the "deserving".
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