that would have to be a decision of PIR and its board - ISOC does not,
at least as I understand it, have any direct access to the .org
revenues. ISOC does select the PIR board but otherwise there is no
financial connection.
Vint
At 12:08 PM 3/15/2003 -0800, Rick Wesson wrote:
Harald,
The short and sweet of it is: Unless we change something, our current
funding methods won't pay for our current work.
At the presentation, I'll ask the floor what they think about various ideas
for improving the situation.
At one point some of us tried to use the .org redelegation to help fund
the IETF. [1] We didn't win but the ISOC's bid did win. Did the ISOC make
the same commitment, could they divert some funding from .org domain
registrations to support the IETF?
It only seems like the right thing to do, at least it did to those of us
who worked on the bid [2]
So, couldn't the ISOC make the same commitment fund the IETF and IAB?
-rick
[1] http://trusted.resource.org/Support/ISOC/intent_to_donate.pdf
[2] http://trusted.resource.org/
Vint Cerf
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