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

["kidsearch" <kidsearch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

lol. Now that's funny I don't care who you are. ICANN BoD thinking it has
the knowledge to decide which tlds are worthwhile and which or not is
laughable at best. The people at Xerox passed on the mouse and HP passed up
the pc. I'm not thinking the BoD members are smarter than these CEOs. You
cannot predict what will work or not work down the road. If you think you
have that knowledge you are a fool. So why is ICANN reviewing business plans
to see whether or not a tld is viable or not?


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "elliot noss" <enoss@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Karl Auerbach" <karl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>; "ga" <ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 1:36 PM
Subject: Re: [ga] Responses by .biz/info/org Registry Operators are
Unacceptable


> 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--
> >
> >
>
>
>
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