[governance] Your support for a petition

[Carlos A. Afonso]

:)

--c.a.

On 02/18/2011 06:19 PM, Daniel Kalchev wrote:
> On 18.2.2011 г. 22:03 ч., Carlos A. Afonso wrote:
>> And, please, an independent Russian journalist would have the dough to
>> go through the extremely expensive application process?
> One has to take into account few things.
> 
> First, there are pretty rich people in Russia. Probably not as rich as
> elsewhere, but sufficiently rich to spend the cash for an TLD, instead
> of for some diamond jevellery for the current favorite.
> 
> When you have got easy money, it's also easy to spend. The value system
> i also quite different and one could want a TLD "just for the trills".
> 
> Also, some really rich people might have whatever hobbies, including
> journalism. :)
> 
> However, I agree that the issue is exagerated a bit. The GAC is nowehere
> as representative as it could be. I also note that there is currently an
> political inerplay going on between the GAC group and ICANN. Both
> parties have their merits. The question is, do we want to be used as
> instrument, or weapon in this fight?
> 
> The problems stay with the ICANN processes ot lack of these, not with
> what desires a group like the GAC has.
> 
> Daniel
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