Re: [ga] Responses by .biz/info/org Registry Operators are Unacceptable

[elliot noss <enoss@xxxxxxxxxx>]

don't forget whether they thought that your driving was a "good  
thing" for the world (whatever that means).

On 19-Oct-06, at 12:29 PM, Karl Auerbach wrote:

> Gomes, Chuck wrote:
>
> > Where do you think funding of the application process costs should  
> > come
> > from if not from the applicant?
>
> I suspect that most of us would say that the applicant ought to  
> cover the expenses of processing the application.
>
> However many (perhaps most outside of the IP community) would say  
> that the current expenses are orders of magnitude too high because  
> the inquiry that is being made by ICANN is not appropriately focused.
>
> Imagine if you went to your state's department of motor vehicles to  
> get a driver's license.  And instead of determining whether you are  
> of legal age and able to drive, they insist on doing, and you  
> paying for, an investigation of your lifestyle, your finances,  
> whether you attended all sessions of all your classes in college  
> (only college graduates need apply), and require you to present a  
> lifetime set of dental x-rays and a letter of recommendation from  
> the minister of your church (agnostics need not apply.)
>
> ICANN's only proper inquiry is whether the applicant will abide by  
> written, broadly accepted technical standards.  That's something  
> that is as simple as a short checklist - see for example the rather  
> short and concise IANA list of items for proper technical operation  
> of a TLD.
>
> The cost of that simple evaluation ought to be only a few dollars -  
> roughly 1/1000th of what ICANN is charging now.
>
> 		--karl--