[discuss] Funding for developing economies as an Ig policy issue? was Re:[ ] Time to be ...

[Michel Gauthier]

Dear Steve,

Is this really decent to talk of $100MM for the management of a small 
Excell table?
Just because a lawyer and a few politcians managed a monopolistic 
scarcity instead of an open global competition?
There are billions of people around the world who are identified by 
their name and forename. Without paying a tax to a costly ASCII 
non-profit for that. What is the ICANN proposition to change that? 
Free life domain names for every non-commercial person? Non-profit 
gTLD? ICANN ICP-3 multi-root competition?

MG



At 22:12 02/01/2014, Steve Crocker wrote:
>Avri,
>
>The reason we haven't made a plan yet is because we don't have any 
>sense of the magnitude of the amounts we're talking about.  Once we 
>have a general sense of the amount we can move into a discussion of 
>what to do with it and what mechanisms would be appropriate.  Very 
>different discussions will take place depending on whether the 
>number is around $1MM, $5MM, $20MM, $50MM or $100MM.
>
>Steve