<p dir="ltr">Dear Sam</p>
<p dir="ltr">The result is never straightforward in International Trade. I keep buying from Amazon, paying import duties to our Finance Ministry and Amazon keeps hiring people for its call center in Costa Rica. Only the local middleman was left out.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Carlos Raúl </p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Oct 2, 2015 8:55 PM, "Sam Lanfranco" <<a href="mailto:lanfran@yorku.ca">lanfran@yorku.ca</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>Milton is both right, and a bit off
here. <br>
ICANN's barriers to entry are the cause<br>
Transfer of financial resources is the result. <br>
As well, this prevents building registry capacity in developing
regions of the globe. <br>
It also reduces registry level input, from those regions, into
ICANN policy development. <br>
Engagement requires, and builds, capacity.<br>
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Sam L<br>
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still have to quibble with this “transfer of resources’
framing of the issue.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">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.
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