Hi. I think Beau mentioned this last month. I wondered then why the standards community would need another cash cow from ICANN. ISOC already gets $5 (or $6, $7, $8?) million a year from .ORG and a good proportion of that goes to the IETF and RFC editor. W3C is an industry association, doesn't the Internet industry think it worth supporting? Not as if it's an industry short on cash. This proposal is referring to selling off single letter/digit names at the second level, right? <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-letter_second-level_domains> <http://www.icann.org/tlds/agreements/unsponsored/registry-agmt-appk-26apr01....> And I guess just names under COM, NET and ORG (?) With the expectation that each of those still on the reserved lists would be worth millions? (t.com How much might AT&T pay for its US stock market ticker symbol? etc.) But before deciding how to spend the cash, wouldn't it be better for the ALS, RALOs and ALAC to discuss if it thinks selling off single letter/digit names is a good idea? Does ICANN have the right to sell of these potential names? 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.") Thanks, Adam At 3:49 PM +0100 1/18/08, Sébastien Bachollet wrote:
Hi May be it is a subject where Ralos and Alac must have a say? See the proposal of the W3C to create a Trust Fund to help standardisation organization to fulfil there mandates. All the best
Sébastien Bachollet Président sebastien.bachollet@isoc.fr www.egeni.org www.isoc.fr
-----Message d'origine----- De : Mathieu Weill [mailto:Mathieu.Weill@afnic.fr] Envoyé : mercredi 16 janvier 2008 16:02 À : gt-international@nic.fr Objet : Une "Fondation DNS" alimentée par l'ICANN ?
Dans le cadre de la consultation de l'ICANN sur les modes d'allocation des noms de domaine à un caractère dans les gTLDs (ex: a.com) le W3C a fait une intéressante proposition ici : http://forum.icann.org/lists/allocationmethods/msg00033.html
Il s'agirait de créer un Trust Fund avec l'argent issu des enchères ou autres, en vue de financer les organismes de développement des standards comme W3C, IETF ou UNICODE.
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