Karl and all IDNO'ers, I couldn't agree more with your conclusion here and hence the subject line I am guessing... At any rate, it is obvious that the ICANN (Initial?) and Interim Board are not very familiar with devising good funding models for non-profit enterprises, such ate the NewCo (ICANN). The only other conclusion that I could reasonable conclude is that the ICANN (Initial?) Interim Board is trying or wanting to use this desire for the $1/DN registration as an excuse to justify high board member salaries and extravagant meetings in various places around the globe... Karl E. Peters wrote: > Please check out this article from CNN about the financial demise of > ICANN. Perhaps cheaper venues for the meetings would have helped! Ironic > that a group with such extensive abilities in the use of such an > inexpensive communication medium as the Internet could spend all that > money so quickly!!! > > Here is the link: > > http://cnn.com/TECH/computing/9907/16/icannt.idg/index.html > > -Karl E. Peters > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > - > This message was sent via the IDNO-DISCUSS mailing list. To unsubscribe, > send a message containing the line "unsubscribe idno-discuss" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more information, see http://www.idno.org/ Regards, -- Jeffrey A. Williams Spokesman INEGroup (Over 95k members strong!) CEO/DIR. Internet Network Eng/SR. Java/CORBA Development Eng. Information Network Eng. Group. INEG. INC. E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Contact Number: 972-447-1894 Address: 5 East Kirkwood Blvd. Grapevine Texas 75208