Re: Addressing plan exercise for our IPv6 course

[Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>]

On Jul 25, 2010, at 11:54 AM, David Conrad wrote:

> On Jul 25, 2010, at 6:02 PM, Owen DeLong wrote:
> > My point was that as a cost center, IANA depends on funding from other sources.  The RIRs are a major source of that 
> > funding.
>
> I guess it depends on your definition of "major".  From section 5.1 of ICANN's draft FY11 budget 
> (http://www.icann.org/en/financials/proposed-opplan-budget-v1-fy11-17may10-en.pdf if you care):
>
> Registry             $32,647,000 
> Registrar            $29,159,000 
> RIR                     $823,000 
> ccTLD                 $1,600,000 
> IDN ccTLD               $780,000 
> Meeting Sponsorships    $500,000
> Total                $65,509,000
>
> So the RIRs contribute 1.25% of ICANN's budget.
>
> Regards,
> -drc

Correct, now, what portion of ICANN's budget is related to the NRO sector?

My bet is that it's less than 1.25%.

I suppose you can make domain owners pay for address administration if you want to make address administration free,
but, that seems a bit backwards to me.

Owen