RE: [icann-eu] Does the ICANN legally exist (this is not a joke)?

[Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>]

> From: Harald Alvestrand [mailto:Harald@Alvestrand.no]
> Sent: Saturday, December 09, 2000 12:52 PM
> 
> At 00:11 08/12/2000 -0400, Peter de Blanc wrote:
> >Just to set the record straight, I am not in favor of 
> "handing over ICANN to
> >the ccTLDs
> >  and gTLDs"
> >
> >I am in favor of equal representation by various 
> "stakeholders" as the
> >original ICANN plan and philosophy.
> 
> at the moment the parties selected because of interest in DNS 
> matters have 
> 1/6 of the board members, equal to the parties selected 
> because of address 
> matters and the parties selected because of protocol matters.

This division may make sense to some. But, it is a workers taxonomy. It is
fine for dividing up available work. It is NOT appropriate for equity-share.

> These three together have equal representation with the 
> people intended to 
> be selected based on "the public interest" (or something like that).

> The ccTLDs have equal representation with the six other recognized 
> constituencies within the DNSO.

Representation within the DNSO is meaningless. The other six constituencies
weren't asked to cough up the tab expected from the ccTLDs. Proportionally,
the representation doesn't match the amount expected. As we ask in American
business, "where is the value?"

For about a $2M investment, the ccTLDs can build their own root-service and
only have to deal with each other. For less than that, they can invest in
equity-share, with VC investment, for a generalized root-service of their
own, for which they can share in the profits as well.

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