Taxation and Representation

["Richard Henderson" <richardhenderson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It's interesting that about half of ICANN's total projected income is intended 
to come from the Transaction Based Registrar Fee (in other words, paid to ICANN 
by Registrants when they acquire a domain name) and yet nowhere in ICANN's 
structure do I find an equivalent representation of the Registrant 
constituency, or indeed even the existence of a Registrant's constituency.

Registrants in the coming year are estimated to be paying ICANN (through their 
Transactions with Registrars) $11,788,252 of ICANN's total projected income of 
$23,453,760.

That is a lot of taxation for zero representation.

Yrs,

Richard H