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

[Adam Peake]

At 6:32 AM +1200 1/19/08, Franck Martin wrote:
>This would be seen as a tax.


I don't agree.   It would be a one time sale, the 
eventual registrant free to buy or not.

Taxes are fees imposed on someone/some entity. A 
sale of reserved names would be more like a govt 
selling off land or buildings it owned.

Do you think ISOC's revenue from .ORG is a tax?

Adam



>On 19/01/2008, Vittorio Bertola <<mailto:vb at bertola.eu>vb at bertola.eu> wrote:
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>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.")
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>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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