Re: ISOC and IETF budgets

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: John Levine <johnl () iecc com>
Date: July 4, 2009 5:06:08 AM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Subject: Re: [IP] ISOC and IETF budgets

> And how do we find out where ISOC is spending the rest of the money
> djf

It's in their budget, which is quite detailed: http://www.isoc.org/isoc/fin/

From a quick read, I see that ISOC's main problem is what to do with
all the money that .org is gushing.  Until 2005 their annual budget
was never over $4M, but it's now $17M in 2009 heading for $20M in
2012.

Their contribution to the IETF is under $2M, with the other $15M going
to their traditional activities of supporting and enabling Internet
wonderfulness.  (I perhaps paraphrase a little here.)  It's quite
clear that if ISOC thought that the IETF's meeting fees were a
problem, they could without a lot of trouble find another million
bucks either to increase the current contribution, which would allow
the meeting fees to drop by about half, or as scholarships or fee
waivers to direct the subsidy to people who need or deserve it more.

R's,
John




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