[governance] ICANN taxes/fees

[Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law]

And ICANN doesn't need to hear business arguments because it has no 
competence relevant to weighing them.  Its role is technical.  (OK, it can 
demand some minimum capitalization to get rid of frivolity.)

There were about 23 million businesses in the USA alone in 2002 [1].  It 
just can't be all that complex to run one...


source:
[1] 
http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/IBQTable?_bm=y&-geo_id=D&-ds_name=SB0200A1&-_lang=en

On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Veni Markovski wrote:

> On 2/7/07, Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law
> <froomkin at law.miami.edu> wrote:
>> it sound harder than it is).  The technical problem is long-solved.
>
> I am not as sure as you are about it. But I am more interested in the
> business model, not in the technical one. Technically one can probably
> do anything. But running a business is not that easy, and earlier in
> the conversation we talked about running a registry, which is running
> a business, not running a server. Even running a server requires some
> business qualities - e.g. what kind of machine to get, how to backup,
> what power supply you'll need, Internet connectivity, UPS, 24x7 staff,
> backup of the power supply, backup of the Internet connection, staff,
> payments, social security, registration of a company, running
> accounting, etc., etc. I didn't hear business arguments.
>
> Veni Markovski
> http://www.veni.com
>
> check also my blog:
> http://blog.veni.com
>
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