At 2:55 AM -0700 10/31/09, Ole Jacobsen wrote:
You're not the first one to suggest that, but they do have a very
different "business model" including covering travel for certain
people and charging no meeting fees. It might make sense for us to
approach the "domain industry" directly though...
The "domain industry" does not profit from the IETF work nearly as much as
ICANN does. Take the past two day's of press coverage for ICANN, for example.
They are being lauded for making the domain name system usable in other scripts
as if this was their doing. Nothing in ICANN's press releases pointed out that
literally tens of thousands of hours of volunteer time had been spent by the
IETF over the past decade to make this work.
ICANN gets millions of dollars of PR value from the work that the IETF does,
whereas the "domain industry" gets very little. ICANN should strongly consider
helping pay for that work.
--Paul Hoffman, Director
--VPN Consortium
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