Opposition to the variable pricing of domain names.

[vspangler@xxxxxxxxxxx]

Dear ICANN Board Members,

Please do not implement the proposed variable pricing plan. This plan may be 
fair for large and well funded organizations that can afford such charges as 
just the cost of doing business. However, there are a lot of small 
organizations doing good work on very limited budgets. Is is hard to imagine a 
fair system being implemented that would not threaten the existence or 
operating efficience of groups doing the Lord's work.

It is not fair for the smaller organization that operates on a limited budget. 
Also, and perhaps most importantly, it will be almost impossible to fairly 
administer such a system - either there will be too much subjectivity in 
establishing and enforcing the criteria for the pricing or there will be a 
requirement for information that will both violate the separation of church and 
state and exceed the authority of ICANN as originally intended in the original 
approval of its existence and control of the internet.

The approval of this plan is sure to result eventually in Congress implementing 
a system that protects the separation of church and state rights of individual 
private and religious organizations.

This kind of a plan could lead to nation by nation implementing there own 
system and causing confusion and disruption in the smooth efficient operation 
of a world-wide internet system.

Yours Respectfully,

Val Spangler, Kid Knowlee Productions