Jim the idea was to limit maximum contribution to $50,000 and to assume/work towards a funding model which does NOT require any contributions at all in the steady state. The funding proposed is strictly for start-up to avoid the possibility that initial funding would be a show-stopper. vint At 08:34 PM 9/12/98 -0500, Jim Fleming wrote:

To: Vinton Cerf http://www.gip.org

Vint,

If 500 new TLDs are added, and each applicant pays $1,000 then you have raised your $500,000.

To allow a few large companies to dominate the funding is very dangerous in my opinion. I do not believe people when they claim there will not be any strings attached to that funding.

Jim Fleming Unir Corporation - http://www.unir.com End-2-End: VPC(Java)---C+ at ---<IPv8>---C+ at ---(Java)VPC http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/130dftmail/unir.txt http://www.ddj.com/index/author/idx10133.htm

P.S. I am curious why Jon Postel did not mention the GIP funding in his recent talk to the IETF.

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