>> > True. However the $186k entrance fee and other unavoidable costs will >> > set some limits. > The thing to watch for is pressure to lower that.
the program is (a) not "cross-subsidized" (the beneficiary of the monopoly contract regime pays nothing towards the creation of a competitive regime), and (b) is "cost-recovery" (for estimated costs, including some risks), and (c) contains an additional "risk" costing in the form of a multi-year estimated "continuity instrument" escrow. in addition, the program now has service level requirements for new operators in excess of those agreed to by current operators. if cost and risk are no better estimated after the current exercise, then the fee levels may be maintained. if they may be better estimated then pressure to maintain the current fee levels can not be justified without a change to the current commitment the corporation has made to those considering current vs subsequent round costs. recall, the costs to applicants in the policy-driven 2000 and 2004 rounds was ~45k usd, and while one applicant spent some part of $20m on its buildout, one applicant went live with very limited resources. > The current commitment on ICANN's part ... my recollection is that corporate legal opined that it could handle a 3k/day execution rate, where "k" == contract, prior to other expressions of the subject of rate of entry into the iana root. -e _______________________________________________ dns-operations mailing list [email protected] https://lists.dns-oarc.net/mailman/listinfo/dns-operations dns-jobs mailing list https://lists.dns-oarc.net/mailman/listinfo/dns-jobs
