Fwd: Confirming Meeting with the Board - Tuesday 13 March - 3:30pm

[Nicolas Adam]

I agree with the first two.

Justification I see for "high" cost is straightforward though : it goes
to some kind of restraint in the expansion movement. What is this 200k
relative to total set up cap ex requirements, anybody has an approximate
ratio?

Nicolas

On 2/22/2012 8:06 PM, Andrew A. Adams wrote:
> Robin,
>
> My personal top three issues at present:
>
> 1. Ensuring that the multi-stakeholder model is not destroyed by top-level
> late interventions overturning an often carefully crafted and negotiated
> balance between the stakeholders. Allowing late interventions to have
> significant impact really undermines this model, whether it's by the GAC or
> anyone else. Governments manage long term involvement in all sorts of arena
> (WTO, WIPO, OECD) all the time. If the Internet is so important then they
> should be properly engaging in the multi-stakeholder process rather than
> trying to do an end run.
>
> 2. Privacy for individuals. I remain unconvinced by the arguments that
> individuals who wish to register domain names should lose their right to
> privacy around their real world contact information. We need a deeper look at
> the necessity for technical contact details to be provided and for the
> registrar to be cntactable and have as part of their standard contract a way
> of dealing with any significant technical problems (domain being used for
> spam, fraud etc).
>
> 3. The high costs associated with the current round of GTLDs which militate
> against both developing country players and against non-commercial players in
> registering new GTLDs. Can the board please justify these costs beyond "what
> the market will bear"?
>