[ncdnhc-discuss] ICANN lays out draft .org bidding schedule, sets tentative applic ation fee at US $35 000

[James Love]

I think we should do a quick resolution which addresses points.

1.  Asks the board to follow its own bylaws withregard to the NC .org
report, and limit bidding to a non-profit organization.
2.   Tell the board to eliminate the fee for applying for the .org, because
it screens out too many potentially good applicants, particularly when
non-profit applicant are offering to perform a public service.  ICANN can
charge significant fees to the winner if it wants, since Verisign is giving
them $5 million, it won't be a problem.
3.   Ask the ICANN board to have a two stage application process, where the
non-proit applies without any promises to the company that actually operates
the registry, and the operator contract comes later, possibly after a
competitive bid, after you pick the non-profit and management style we like.
This should also deal with the sham non-profit issue.

Jamie

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Chiu" <CCHIU at aclu.org>
To: "NCC Discuss list (E-mail)" <discuss at icann-ncc.org>
Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 5:17 PM
Subject: [ncdnhc-discuss] ICANN lays out draft .org bidding schedule, sets
tentative applic ation fee at US $35 000


> The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has established a
> "target schedule for requesting, receiving, and evaluating applications to
> succeed VeriSign, Inc., as the registry operator for the .org top-level
> domain." Under this scheme, Request for Proposal (RFP) materials will be
> released on May 1, 2002 for Names Council comment and for applicants to
> begin working on their proposals. The Board expects to select a winner in
> late August 2002. In addition, ICANN plans to charge an application fee,
> tentatively set at US $35 000; ICANN's Board of Directors "the Board will
> finally establish the examination fee (which will not exceed the tentative
> fee) at its meeting to be held in Bucharest, Romania, on 28 June 2002."
The
> organization claims that rebates will be given out "if the final
examination
> fee is less than the US$35 000 tentative examination fee."
>
> See
> http://www.internetdemocracyproject.org/#highlights
>
> Sincerely,
> Christopher Chiu
> Global Internet Liberty Campaign Organizer
> American Civil Liberties Union
>
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