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ICANN lifts price caps on .NET registry fees
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2005 21:01:15 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren () vortex com> Date: July 4, 2005 6:07:45 PM EDT To: dave () farber net Cc: lauren () vortex com Subject: Re: [IP] ICANN lifts price caps on .NET registry fees
From: Bret Fausett <fausett () gmail com> Date: July 4, 2005 5:15:28 PM EDT Subject: ICANN lifts price caps on .NET registry fees
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For those folks who would like to see ICANN abandon everything except "technical coordination" comes what should be received as a bit of good news: ICANN is lifting the price caps on Verisign's .NET registry fees.
Dave, *removing* an existing price cap is as much of a non-technical policy decision as imposing them in the first place. Did we somehow miss the broad, open, global, lengthy, public discussion regarding this major change when proposed, and ICANN's presumed careful, deliberate, and fully-vetted procedures for analyzing the impacts of such a pricing change on all involved parties, including ultimately the end-user customers of the associated domain names? Or, just perhaps, is this yet another of ICANN's decisions that make the responses from a "Magic 8 Ball" seem like a bastion of wise and clearly delineated public policy stewardship? "Reply Hazy, Try Again," indeed. --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein lauren () pfir org or lauren () vortex com or lauren () eepi org Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 http://www.pfir.org/lauren Co-Founder, PFIR - People For Internet Responsibility - http://www.pfir.org Co-Founder, EEPI - Electronic Entertainment Policy Initiative - http://www.eepi.org Moderator, PRIVACY Forum - http://www.vortex.com Member, ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com DayThink: http://daythink.vortex.com ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as lists-ip () insecure org To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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