Raising $500,000 for the new IANA

-----Original Message-----
From: vinton g. cerf <vcerf at MCI.NET>
To: Jim Fleming <JimFleming at unety.net>
Cc: tld-wg at ripe.net <tld-wg at ripe.net>; domain-policy at open-rsc.org
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Date: Saturday, September 12, 1998 8:39 PM
Subject: Re: 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

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OK...if 500 companies step forward with $1,000
to apply, then I suppose we could send the $50,000
back to each of the large donors. 250 of the initial
companies could be from the "existing" legacy TLDs.
This would place everyone on an equal footing and
will raise an instant $250,000.

In light of France's recent decision to take control of
some of the so-called ccTLDs, I think it is time for
the Internet community to recognize that a TLD, is
a TLD, is a TLD.

@@@@ http://www.gtld-mou.org/pab/mail-archive/00298.html

"Lastly, it is necessary to end rapidly the exploitation, by
private operators having received no mandate from the French
authorities, of the management of top level domains corresponding
to French overseas departments (.gp for Guadeloupe, .mq for Martinique,...).
IANA effectively considers that these are "national" domains.  The
French government must therefore request IANA to refuse to
recognize these operators or to allocate them IP addresses."

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Jim Fleming
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