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

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. If I get my own IP block, why not? by ka9dgx · · Score: 4, Funny
    Give me a globally routable class C address, and I'll chip in a few $$$ to keep things going.

    --Mike--

  2. ICANN and $$ by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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.