On 4/3/11 10:46 AM, Alan Greenberg wrote:
I can't speak on behalf of ALAC, but I can say why I opposed the "look at the 100k item"
Cost of application, and Joint Application Support related. In the discussion arising from a Draft ALAC statement on the SSR-RT Set of Issues, drafted by Olivier Crepin-Leblond, in the context of the cost of the DNSSEC requirement, an ALAC contributor has opined that imposing a $100k cost for all technical issues is a negligible burden, within a larger budget of "about 1M US$ soley for the ICANN related burocracy". As the date for consensus set by the drafter is today, and the ALAC contributor holding the views cited above has not responded to a set of questions on the necessity and utility of requirements substantially in excess of those imposed on all but 9 of the existing 332 registry operators, and substantially in excess of the requirements met by the .aero, .coop, .museum, and .pro operators in 2001/2002, and the requirements met by the .cat operator in 2004/2005, it is unlikely that there will be an ALAC consensus statement on the SSR-RT Set of Issues. I find it amazing that anyone has the self-assurance to use the ALAC's comment on the SSR-RT issues to advocate that applications with less than seven figures of capitalization, a tenth of which is allocated to meeting initially non-functional DNSSEC and v6 requirements, have insufficient capitalization and/or subject matter competency, and should be expected to fail operationally post-delegation, or be failed administratively prior to delegation. Eric