[78138] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: UN Panel Aims to End Internet Tug of War by July
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric A. Hall)
Tue Feb 22 15:48:33 2005
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 15:47:00 -0500
From: "Eric A. Hall" <ehall@ehsco.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <200502221934.TAA17482@sunf10.rd.bbc.co.uk>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On 2/22/2005 2:34 PM, Brandon Butterworth wrote:
> Now ICANN are ramping up their domain tax to fund the increasing
> overhead they are imposing, who will tax less ICANN or ITU?
Given that ICANN [probably] won't be doing things like (eg) funding Cuba's
state-run proxies and content filters, I'd say ICANN.
But the amount of the tax isn't the real issue in that sentence. Making me
underwrite Cuban oppression is.
Sorry, I know this stuff comes as a shock to BBC types.
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