Re: Specific Questions

["Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>]

Karl Denninger writes:
> > 1. Application Fee - How Much and why? Refundable if not selected for
> >   any reason?
> 
> $1,000.  Refundable (to create incentive to approve absent CLEAR
> evidence that doing so is not in the public interest).  Just enough
> to handle the paperwork processing.

This is insufficient to pay for the process. Thats simply an objective
fact -- $20,000 total in the form of $1,000 from each of 20 registries
simply will not pay for the selection process. The money has to come
from somewhere.

> > 2. Fee for credit check - Fair?
> 
> No.  D&B charges ~$30.00 for a credit report.  If that's not good enough,
> they can pay out of their own pockets (we're a D&B subscriber and that's
> what we pay for a credit check on a BUSINESS)

Your comment here makes no sense. If you admit that credit reports
cost money, then why shouldn't the applicants be forced to pay for
the credit reports needed to process their applications? If they don't
pay for the credit reports, who will? Certainly the Internet Society
can't afford to pay for them.


Perry
As always, speaking for myself, and not the IAHC in an official capacity