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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On Thursday 18 September 2014 07:18 PM,
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 8:32 AM,
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that is the mandate of the ICANN to perform can be done at
maybe 5 percent of ICANN's budget or at least revenue.</blockquote>
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<div>Mandate or IANA function? If the latter, you are
correct.<br>
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is just highly puffed up for basically serving US's
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<div>ICANN is "puffed up" because it costs a lot of money to
put on meetings 3x per year in far flung locations around
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<div>Without the need to develop policy using many thousands
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Yes, after such intense consultations, they decide that the global
public is ok with giving .health to a US organisation that promotes
the interests of big pharma against cheap generic drugs, which is a
matter of life and death to so many poor people, is likely to
auction .book to Amazon as a closed generic, so that Amazon holds
the rights to what can be called as a digital book, and so many
other monstrosities... <br>
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<div> they could do their job using far fewer resources.<br>
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<div>This spending is a feature, not a bug. It is a very
useful feature for CS folks who rely on the no-strings
attached travel funding to participate in person.<br>
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No-strings!! Thats the joke here... <br>
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McTim<br>
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"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it
is. A route indicates how we get there." Jon Postel
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