§ The Earl of Northeskasked Her Majesty's Government:
Whether, in light of the current dispute relating to fees being charged to Internet country code administrators, they have made any representations to ICANN on issues of Internet codes; and, if so, what was the nature of such representation. [HL20]
§ The Minister for Science, Department of Trade and Industry (Lord Sainsbury of Turville)ICANN's Government Advisory Committee (of which the UK is member) issued a communiqué on 14 July 2000 which covered, amongst other things, the funding of ICANN (http://www.icann.org/gac/communique-14ju100.htm). The communiqué recognised that country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) administrators should contribute towards the funding of ICANN and that collectively they should pay the allocation set out in ICANN's 1999–2000 budget but determine between themselves how much each should pay. The communiqué also encouraged ICANN to develop, in consultation with the ccTLD community and through a consensus based approach, appropriate criteria and mechanisms for calculating how much each ccTLD administrator should contribute annually to the future funding of ICANN.