[At-Large] TR: Une "Fondation DNS" aliment ée par l'ICANN ?

[Adam Peake]

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.htm> 
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 at isoc.fr
>www.egeni.org
>www.isoc.fr
>
>
>-----Message d'origine-----
>De : Mathieu Weill [mailto:Mathieu.Weill at afnic.fr]
>Envoyé : mercredi 16 janvier 2008 16:02
>À : gt-international at 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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