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People are forgetting that the U.S. Department
of Commerce more or less ordered ICANN to increase
the Budget.
They equate large and expensive with stable and
secure.
ICANN will of course turn that around and use
it to get U.S. Government funding for more
and more projects, either directly or indirectly.
You can be sure that Vinton Cerf is helping MCI
feed from the U.S. Government pork barrel. Over
at AT&T, Marilyn "porker" Cade will also be making
sure those U.S. Government contracts flow to AT&T.
The $16,000,000 is pocket change. The Budget will
need to be 10 times that amount to attract the
people needed to make the "institution" stable
and on par with the ITU. Sheesh, even the .ORG
cash cow over at the ISOC has $18,000,000 plus
going some place with $6 per name for 3+ million
names. Ask Farber where that goes.
Over at ARIN, they are swimming in cash. They
are now starting to give money away, to fund
groups like NANOG. That buys a lot of beer at
their social events. That is one way to piss it
away.
People are forgetting that for years the ISOC
insiders told everyone to never "tax" the Internet.
They claimed that would kill the Internet.
People can now see why the ISOC did not want
those taxes, the ISOC taxes the net themselves,
and laughs all the way to the bank.
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http://europa.eu.int
"The European Regulators Group (ERG), which brings together the national authorities responsible for electronic communication markets, today published a "Common Position" on how they apply remedies to address competition problems in the newly opened markets for electronic communications. The EU regulatory framework sets out a 'menu' of remedies that National Regulatory Authorities (NRAs) can apply to address specific problems that may arise in markets where there is one or more operators with significant market power. The 'menu' includes obligations to provide access, non-discrimination, transparency, cost accounting and price control.
"This is an important milestone for the new regulatory framework", said Erkki Liikanen, European Commissioner for Enterprise and the Information Society. "It provides an important step towards delivering the full potential of our reforms through greater predictability, coherence and a more harmonised approach to the way markets operate across the Union. At the same time, I hope regulators in applying these rules will remember that this regulatory framework is about rolling back regulation and promoting competition. The framework must work in a way which supports and does not stifle emerging markets and services. It is now up to national regulators to abide by this Common Position and to provide a sound justification whenever they deviate from it.""
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http://forum.icann.org/lists/budget-comments/msg00 007.html
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