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ICANN Asks: Would You Pay for At-Large Membership? 11

Posted by timothy from the what-the-market-will-bear dept.
ddstreet writes: "ICANN now has a publicly-available At-Large survey that everyone should fill out. It basically only is to find out if people will pay a fee to be (or remain) an ICANN At-Large member. If you have disagreed with ICANN decisions in the past, you definately should fill this out to let them know you want to be (or remain) an ICANN member."
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ICANN Asks: Would You Pay for At-Large Membership?

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  • No (Score:2, Insightful)

    by oregon ( 554165 )

    "Here's some money ... please ignore me."

    I don't think so.

  • If I get my own IP block, why not? (Score:4, Funny)

    by ka9dgx ( 72702 ) on Sunday February 03, 2002 @03:14PM (#2947039) Homepage Journal
    Give me a globally routable class C address, and I'll chip in a few $$$ to keep things going.

    --Mike--

  • When slashdot points users to an online poll, that's news. When M$ does it, it's flooding.

    Interesting standards.

    ___
    This message was written from an X-Terminal of a Linux server.
  • The At-Large Membership Study Committee was recently formed to forge a consensus on the best method for representing the world's Internet users as individuals ("At-Large Members") within ICANN.

    I think that the best way to choos the right people is to vote the representatives from a list of nominees.

    The nominees should be decided by the Committee, by an online survey, or by both.

    And I think that the members shouldn't pay for what they are doing, instead they should be paid by ICANN for doing a great service to all of us.

    • I don't think the at large members should be paid. Maybe reimbursed for expenses, but then you must define and limit what expenses that should be covered/required. There should be some benefit for the at large members, not cash though.

      There is a need to thin the herd of at-large members, because some people will sign-up and do nothing.

    • I'm thinking that if we want something good to come out of this we may need to open our pockets to it. Otherwise they'll just get all of their money from the big players and continue to shaft us. 'course they'll probably still do that, but what's $5-25/year?

  • ICANN and $$ (Score:3, Interesting)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 03, 2002 @08:45PM (#2948275)
    ICANN doesn't have much money, and is in real financial trouble.

    ICANN keeps trying to get registries, governments, and corporations to give them financial support. Since many of these folks are exactly the same folks ICANN is going around screwing over, they aren't particularly interested in paying ICANN's bills.

    So ICANN is looking for any more ways it can to pull in money. Why not try to shake down the poor fools in the "At-Large" membership? It solves two problems the board has: one, it gets them more money, and two, it neatly gets rid of a lot of the pesky at-large folks (either making them just go away in disgust or giving them a retort that they obviously don't care enough to spend $50 or whatever).

    By far the best thing everyone can do is to make sure not to ever give ICANN any money. And if you have any ability to influence decisions to fund ICANN, do everything you can to shoot it down. If ICANN goes bankrupt, they go away. The real registry work is done by other parties anyway -- ICANN is a political policy making organization. ICANN's going away won't cause any major immediate meltdowns -- presumably some organization or organizations would take over the job, but there's a decent chance that an ICANN replacement would be better. At least we'd have learned a few things about how not to operate an ICANN-like org.
  • It seems to me that there are plenty of large corporations who would just love to be able to buy the ICANN votes.

    It's already been seen that the original ICANN committee does NOT want any opinions from the open source and free software communities.

    I suspect that this is the first step in trying to price such opinions out of their committee.
  • If not, WTF was I doing voting last 2000-Oct?
  • You'll notice the second question is "will you help?" -- the money question is below that. I wonder which is more important to them.

    (What do ICANN volunteers do? Set up web sites with polls?)
  • What is ICANN's authority again?

    They seem to have not done anything useful yet...aside from create a few new TLDs that nobody really cares for.

    Why are we subjugating ourselves to them? It's not like they actually control the servers and backbones...if a few big companies said "fuck you" to ICANN instead of going along with it, you can bet damn well that they wouldn't be doing much.

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