Karl,
I agree with your sentiments below. The closest model I can see is the
amateur radio licensing fee model, but that involves governmental agencies
from many countries, and is a mess.
I would be very uncomfortable paying any tax or fee to ICANN under the
current circumstances as well, and am recommending to Diebold Incorporated
executive management, anycastNET Incorporated and Top Level Domain
Association members that they resist any such fee without a much higher
level of accountability, responsiveness and professionalism.
Gene Marsh
At 03:53 PM 7/18/99 -0700, you wrote:
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>I hear that ICANN has run out of money.
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>Have they published a statement showing the expenses to date.
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>(I, for one, wouldn't want to to pay the $1 domain name tax [not to
>mention the probable eventual $$ for IP address space tax] when there is
>no published record of how the entity which is imposing the tax is
>spending it.)
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>For those who object to the word "tax", you can do a replace the word
>"tax" with 'mandatory fee unrelated to costs".
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> --karl--
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Gene Marsh
president, anycastNET Incorporated
330-699-8106
