[NA-Discuss] Financial Contribution & Assessment of Dues

[Jacqueline A. Morris]

None of the other RALOs send financial contributions to ICANN. Actually, for
some, US$500 could be a whole lot of money. That's a monthly salary in some
places. If NARALO wants to - that would be your decision. But given that the
MoU requires ICANN to provide resources for the RALO to function, if you
have the $500, it might be better to apply it to NARALO activities.
Jacqueline

-----Original Message-----
From: John L [mailto:johnl at iecc.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 1:37 PM
To: Danny Younger
Cc: NA Discuss
Subject: Re: [NA-Discuss] Financial Contribution & Assessment of Dues

> May I ask why the NARALO is not agreeing to make a
> financial contribution to ICANN as do other
> organizations?

I believe that most if not all of the ccTLD agreements include a voluntary 
contribution from the ccTLD, typically a nominal number like the 
Salvadorian one.  Honestly, I don't know why they bother, since the 
accounting for a $500 contribution will probably cost close to $500, and 
with the doubling and soon tripling of the per-registration fee, ICANN's 
registry income is heading towards $75M per year so it's not like they 
need the money.

As far as I know, none of the other RALOs pay anything either.  Since the 
point of the RALO is to provide legitimacy to ICANN, it sems reasonable 
for ICANN to support it.

Regards,
John Levine, johnl at iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for
Dummies",
Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://www.johnlevine.com, ex-Mayor
"More Wiener schnitzel, please", said Tom, revealingly.

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