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

[Vittorio Bertola]

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.
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