Milton is both right, and a bit off here.
ICANN's barriers to entry are the cause
Transfer of financial resources is the result.
As well, this prevents building registry capacity in developing regions 
of the globe.
It also reduces registry level input, from those regions, into ICANN 
policy development.
Engagement requires, and builds, capacity.

Sam L
>
> I still have to quibble with this “transfer of resources’ framing of 
> the issue.
>
> <deleted middle content>
>
> The real problem is that incumbent operators in North America are 
> grabbing most of this sticky market because TLD operators from the 
> developing world are excluded by the massive entry barriers created by 
> ICANN. It’s not transference, its entry barriers.
>
>


-- 
------------------------------------------------
"It is a disgrace to be rich and honoured
in an unjust state" -Confucius
------------------------------------------------
Dr Sam Lanfranco (Prof Emeritus & Senior Scholar)
Econ, York U., Toronto, Ontario, CANADA - M3J 1P3
email: [log in to unmask]   Skype: slanfranco
blog:  http://samlanfranco.blogspot.com
Phone: +1 613-476-0429 cell: +1 416-816-2852