Roeland and all,
Agreed. The $100k to many corps would be onerous indeed. Very
few small businesses have that much ready cash on hand, and as
a small business they should not have as they need or should have
a much of their capitol as working capitol, not as cash on hand.
This is just one of the areas that the ICANN's "Accreditation Guidelines"
are our of touch with the realities of the Internet industry.
Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote:
> At 08:28 PM 3/8/99 -0500, Bob Allisat wrote:
> >http://www.sjmercury.com/breaking/docs/057286.htm ...
> >> The initial accreditation guidelines called for applicants to
> >> have $100,000 in liquid capital, $500,000 in liability insurance,
>
> The $100KUS is onerous, the liability insurance is a normal requirement and
> most corps have that as a minimum.
>
> >> a proven computer infrastructure and at least five employees.
> >> Esther Dyson, interim chairwoman of the group's board, said that
> >> in relaxing the guidelines the board would allow exceptions to
> >> some of the standards.
> >
> > And how does any non-profit group, individual,
> > small business or charity fit into this picture?
> > Answer: they don't. Domain Name Registries like
> > our embrionic Free Community Network are entirely
> > shut out of this plan. Also... what is an interim
> > Board doing setting policies with potentially such
> > wide ranging effects? Who elected them, where are
> > the members, what accountability or records exist
> > for these decisions? In order: no-one elected these
> > people, there is no membership, no accountability
> > and all decisions are made in secret. Sounds like
> > a recipe for Olympian stature disaster to me...
> >
> > Bob Allisat
> >
> > Free Community Network _ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > http://fcn.net _ http://fcn.net/allisat
> > http://robin.fcn.net
>
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