Daniel Dardailler ha scritto:
Vittorio:
.. 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".
So this is about drawing the "deserving" line at a level we're all fine with. We're missing data here.
I'm just afraid that once you open the gates, you open the way to massive taxation of whatever resource allocation process could be necessary for the future, and you enter into disputes on what is "deserving" that are hard to solve. Why fund the standards organizations, say, and not the free software groups that give free operating systems, browers and other applications to everyone? And why not spend the money to fund the OLPC program and give laptops to children in the developing world? And what if by raising the cost of resources at the centre (since you have to collect money to fund more projects) you actually make it impossible for similar non-profit projects to develop independently at the edges? I agree that, in practice, the line was already crossed when .org was awarded to ISOC... however ICANN was never designed with the objective of funding the growth of Internet architectures, and in recent years the number of people saying "ICANN should fund this" or "ICANN should fund that" has been increasing enough to make everyone a bit nervous. If ICANN is to put money into new kinds of funding efforts, there should be at least a clear and broadly supported agreement about the process through which it will decide what to tax, how much to raise and how to spend it. -- vb. Vittorio Bertola - vb [a] bertola.eu <-------- --------> finally with a new website at http://bertola.eu/ <--------