Where is the financial responsibility here ?

[Ken Stubbs <ken@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ken Stubbs wrote:

I am submitting the following  comments _solely _in my capacity as an 
individual member of the ICANN community.
" Nowhere in this document is there any requirement or acknowledgment
of any financial responsibility by the CCTLD's  for payments to ICANN
to help recover the costs of this process or to provide financial 
support for the future management of this effort.
The entire cost burden (well into 7 figures) for this is being laid on 
the rest of the ICANN community's backs...
_This is grossly unfair _and reflects a continuing pattern going back 
over the last 10 years of refusal by many
members of the CCTLD community to pay their "fair and reasonable share" 
of ICANN costs. 

Many of the countries who will benefit from this new IDN roll out have 
more than adequate financial
resources to shoulder their fair share of the burden of the roll out 
costs incurred and can most certainly
manage their proportionate share the ongoing management cost as well

This situation is becoming both intolerable and embarrassing for  all 
parties involved and its time for ICANN
to step up and require these applicants accept financial responsibility 
for subsidizing the process that
will provide the future benefits which will accrue solely to them."

I sincerely hope that the Board takes these comments to heart.

Respectfully,

Ken Stubbs