$12 million !!!! -- really total $61 M

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: "Richard Shockey" <richard () shockey us>
Date: July 2, 2009 3:20:34 PM EDT
To: <dave () farber net>
Subject: RE: [IP] Re:   $12 million !!!!


Well as a long time IETF participant WG chair etc I take considerable
offence to that note.

All of us pay our own expenses to IETF meetings and the secretariat is
principally funded by the attendance fees with considerable help from  
ISOC.

The current ICANN budget for 09 is nearly 61 Million total which is  
nearly
unbelievable to some of us since ICANN essentially does nothing but  
act as a
taxation authority for GTLD's.

To even suggest that ICANN is the 'governing body of the Internet" is  
nearly
laughable on its face since it operates only on voluntary compliance  
with a
series RFC, nothing more.

Google and now BING have ended the argument once and for all on the  
utility
of more GTLD's but what the heck if you want 10,000 or so it won't  
make any
difference that is a proven engineering fact.. open up the 3 letter  
ISO 3166
codes to Nation States if folks really think there is a problem.

Of course that ICANN does not do very much is fine with the real  
Internet
Engineering community since the last thing the Internet needs is a
regulator.

However as a newly unemployed IP engineer there may be some utility to
sticking my head in the ICANN consultant troth from time to time.

> From: Richard Perlman <rdp () yikes com>
> Date: July 2, 2009 10:09:13 AM EDT
> To: David Farber <dave () farber net>, ip <ip () v2 listbox com>
> Subject: Re: [IP] $12 million !!!!
>
> For IP if you wish...
>
> I think Marshal Rose's MFLD* comment (I believe re: the IETF) might
> apply
> here as well.





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