On Sun, 20 Jun 1999, Bill Lovell wrote:
> Back in the days when we heard about ICANN as being
> a shoe string operation in Joe's back bedroom, being run
> off the credit cards of the Board (?) members and maybe
> a TRS-80, there was an influx of funds from some heavy
> industry hitters. Uh, oh! CAPTURE by the trademark
> interests, was the hue and cry. So how can any such
> event be avoided?
Too late. Anyone notice that 40% of the testbed registrars happened to
be significant contributors to the "ICANN startup fund?"
> Well, I (no doubt among others) proposed a buck a
> registration, so as to spread the income sources so
> that ICANN would be beholden to no one. But now
> that that precise thing is being proposed, what are
> very likely the same naysayers are demanding that
> there be Congressional hearings over that piddling
> little buck.
A "piddling little buck" times 6 million is a lot of bucks. A 5.9 million
dollar budget is a vast increase over the budget previously required for
this task(perhaps this can be somewhat explained by $400 a night hotel
rooms and flights around the world.)
More importantly, the people that are attempting to impose this $1 per
domain name tax are unelected. The people they are attempting to
impose it on are completely unrepresented in this process.
No taxation without representation. It's that simple.
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