[IP] ICANN lifts price caps on .NET registry fees

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren@vortex.com>
Date: July 4, 2005 6:07:45 PM EDT
To: dave@farber.net
Cc: lauren@vortex.com
Subject: Re: [IP] ICANN lifts price caps on .NET registry fees


> From: Bret Fausett <fausett@gmail.com>
> Date: July 4, 2005 5:15:28 PM EDT
> Subject: ICANN lifts price caps on .NET registry fees
...

> For those folks who would like to see ICANN abandon everything except
> "technical coordination" comes what should be received as a bit of
> good news: ICANN is lifting the price caps on Verisign's .NET registry
> fees.

Dave, *removing* an existing price cap is as much of a non-technical
policy decision as imposing them in the first place.  Did we somehow
miss the broad, open, global, lengthy, public discussion regarding
this major change when proposed, and ICANN's presumed careful,
deliberate, and fully-vetted procedures for analyzing the impacts of
such a pricing change on all involved parties, including ultimately
the end-user customers of the associated domain names?

Or, just perhaps, is this yet another of ICANN's decisions that make
the responses from a "Magic 8 Ball" seem like a bastion of wise and
clearly delineated public policy stewardship?

"Reply Hazy, Try Again," indeed.

--Lauren--
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