<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">On Jun 19, 2014, at 5:07 PM, Ian Peter <<a href="mailto:ian.peter@ianpeter.com">ian.peter@ianpeter.com</a>> wrote:<br><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"><div>ICANN collects Internet taxes from domain name owners. It is a non profit company.</div><div> </div><div>I would like to see ICANN devote a percentage of its considerable income to addressing social issues associated with the Internet, eg digital divide. </div></div></div></div></blockquote><br></div><div>Ian - </div><div> </div><div> To the extent that ICANN is recovering costs associated with the registry </div><div> policy development or registry administration, I am not sure it's appropriate</div><div> to characterize them them as "Internet taxes". </div><div><br></div><div> The use of such proceeds to facilitate global participation in the policy </div><div> development process, or accountability and transparency review, or </div><div> similar registry-related capacity-building makes perfect sense, but that</div><div> is probably more focused than the type of activities you are suggesting?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>/John</div><div><br></div><div>Disclaimer: my views alone.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></body></html>