Strange as it may seem to you, I think you'll find we can't be bought, with the possible exception of a majority of seats on ICANN's Board and Executive Committee. Regards, Joanna > -----Original Message----- > From: Jim Fleming [mailto:JimFleming@ameritech.net] > Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2002 10:29 PM > To: jo-uk@rcn.com; karl@cavebear.com; 'The IETF'; Judith Oppenheimer; > jefsey@jefsey.com; Richard Henderson > Cc: love@cptech.org; Milton Mueller; Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School > of Law; apisan@servidor.unam.mx; KathrynKL@aol.com > Subject: results of .... election > > > Will each of these people have an office at ICANN ?....and a > budget and staff ? > > http://www.icannatlarge.com/ > http://www.icann-ncc.org/pipermail/discuss/2002-August/002702.html > # Vittorio Bertola (Europe) - 133 votes > # Joanna Lane (Europe) - 121 votes > # Richard Henderson (Europe) - 112 votes > # Judith Oppenheimer (North America) - 105 votes > # James Love (North America) - 104 votes > # Youn Jung Park (Asia/Pacific) - 100 votes > # Satyajit Gupta (Central/West/South Asia) - 93 votes > # Hans Klein (North America) - 82 votes > # Vivek Durai (Central/West/South Asia) - 80 votes > # Jefsey Morfin (Europe) - 77 votes > # Michael Geist (North America) - 63 votes > =================================== > > If the budget is $2,000,000 per year, per elected representative, then > the 11 above would require $22,000,000 of the annual ICANN budget. > That may allow some of the people to operate regional offices, with staff. > Will the new .COM Registry be funding this ? With 30,000,000+ names, > at $6 per year, that is over $180,000,000 per year. What would happen > to the surplus ? Would that be spent on actual servers and networks ? > > If instead, the new .ORG Registry funds it, then the 3,000,000 .ORG owners > may have to pay more for domain names. At $10 per year, per name, there > may be enough to fund the above and make sure they can fly first-class to > all the IETF meetings. There may even be some surplus to actually operate > the TLD Cluster. > > Jim Fleming > 2002:[IPv4]:000X:03DB > http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space > http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/130dftmail/unir.txt > > >
