Raising $500,000 for the new IANA

Jim

the idea was to limit maximum contribution to $50,000
and to assume/work towards a funding model which does
NOT require any contributions at all in the steady state.
The funding proposed is strictly for start-up to avoid
the possibility that initial funding would be a show-stopper.

vint

At 08:34 PM 9/12/98 -0500, Jim Fleming wrote:
>To: Vinton Cerf
>http://www.gip.org
>
>Vint,
>
>If 500 new TLDs are added, and each applicant
>pays $1,000 then you have raised your $500,000.
>
>To allow a few large companies to dominate
>the funding is very dangerous in my opinion. I
>do not believe people when they claim there will
>not be any strings attached to that funding.
>
>
>Jim Fleming
>Unir Corporation - http://www.unir.com
>End-2-End: VPC(Java)---C+ at ---<IPv8>---C+ at ---(Java)VPC
>http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/130dftmail/unir.txt
>http://www.ddj.com/index/author/idx10133.htm
>
>
>P.S. I am curious why Jon Postel did not
>mention the GIP funding in his recent talk
>to the IETF.
> 
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