At 3:42 PM -0800 3/19/03, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:
Margaret also asked:
Who decides how much of the ISOC's income is directed to IETF
activities? Do we know what percentage of ISOC's income is
represented in the $500-600K number?
The RFC Editor budget is negotiated each year with the IAB chair, ISI
and ISOC and is based on work chartered for the coming year, ISOC
then fundraises to support this (plus of course enough to cover the
costs of fundraising, associated staff support, rent and website,
etc.). Discretionary spending for IETF & IAB (meeting and conference
call fees, etc.) are negotiated each year based on history and
requirements. 2003's forecast for this plus insurance is $700K -
800K.
Our other activities are meant to be self funding - that is we get
grants, sponsorships or membership fees to cover specific expenses,
this is especially true for education activities.
We could attempt to increase fundraising for ISOC/the IETF. For
instance, we don't send fundraising requests to IETF attendees
(at least I've never received any). Does ISOC engage a professional
fundraising firm? If not, maybe that should be considered.
actually we do fundraise from the companies that participate in the
IETF and we regularly get reports of companies and the number of
attendees at the IETF (assuming some relation between this
representation of interest and possible support). But we do not get
names of individuals for privacy reasons, so there is no direct
individual solicitation (unless the opportunity presents itself at
the IETF meeting itself).
All interested parties though are welcome to just reply to this memo.
Lynn St.Amour
President - ISOC