[governance] ICANN taxes/fees

[veni markovski]

Milton,
you have a lot of knowledge on theory - no one questions that. What I 
bother about is not the businesses, and my question was not what 
happens to the business, but what happens to the users. Yes, the same 
ones, which you have tried to represent through the NCDNHC. I see 
that you care about other issues. I care about the users. I care, 
because I've been running an ISP for 9 years, and I know what it 
means to run a business, which has started with 2 people, and have 
become a 50+ company, in a country, where the legal environment has 
not been favourable towards private businesses, and where governments 
have tried to implement licensing on ISPs.
I am not a University professor, and therefore I can't argue with you 
on high academic grounds. But you are not a businessman, and your 
knowledge keeps you blind about simple things, as for example that 
when I explain you how difficult it is to run a business, I don't do 
it to defend a position, but to give you some more knowledge.

And comparing ISP business to running a TLD shows also somewhat mixed 
values and lack of full understanding of what these businesses are.

veni

P.S. As for your other, personal comments - I've learnt for the last 
17 years since I am on line that when someone attacks me on personal 
grounds, that only shows that his position is not a good one, and 
he's trying to avoid the conversation, or to bring some doubts.

At 08:04 AM 2/8/2007  -0500, Milton Mueller wrote:
>Veni:
> >what happens when the registry goes out
> >of business, or the person who is running it
> >decides to move in another city, or country,
> >or stops working on computers?
>
>The answer to these questions are simple. When a registry goes out of
>business, either someone takes over its administration, or not. In the
>latter case, the domain ceases to work.
>
>In other words, when a registry goes out of business, the same thing
>happens as when an ISP goes out of business, or a web site with which
>you have an account, or a hosting service goes out of business.

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