[governance] ICANN taxes/fees

[Avri Doria]

On 8 feb 2007, at 11.46, veni markovski wrote:

> It's not right to compare apples with pears. Comparing a TLD to  
> Wikipedia

in gernal i am not sure that is it not right to compare apples and  
pears. - they are both fruit and have enough in common that comparing  
them is sometime reasonable: which is juicer, has more vitamin c,  
cost more ...

now comparing a TLD and a Wikipedia may in some sense be too  
dismilar.  but comparing the business involved in running a TLD to  
running a Wikipedia might not be. they are after all both businesses,  
in fact both business that use networks, and computer equipment and  
storage, trained personnel and ...  ture they are dissimilar is  
several ways too, the product is different, response time is  
differnet, criticality of correct response is different ...

certainly business school have assumed that the case study of one  
business is often very instructive in understand the principles that  
might apply to another business.  of course this knowledge is always  
only analogous and it is important to understnad not only the  
similarities but the differences.  once one does an adequate analysis  
of the similarity/dissimilarity, one then has a basis for knowing to  
which degree the comparisons made between the apple and the pear are  
reasonable.

to say that no comparison is possible throws out almost all of  
current business theory.  (which sounds like something i am more  
likely to do then you.)

a.






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