John, Paul let me ask the obvious question. What were you expecting the Open
Internet Endowment to do beyond the IETF?
Outreach to National Regulatory Authorities, for instance? Support for
independent research beyond IRTF? Better funding for young technologists?
It’s a serious question. ISOC’s mission statement isself relatively amorphous.
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On 7/12/16, 1:16 PM, "ietf on behalf of Paul Wouters"
<ietf-bounces(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org on behalf of paul(_at_)nohats(_dot_)ca> wrote:
On Tue, 12 Jul 2016, John C Klensin wrote:
I signed up for, and contributed to, the Open Internet Endowment
based on commitments that its mission would be very broad, not
be turned into an IETF support fund. I don't believe donors
were even superficially consulted about the change. What would
happen if I (and maybe others who feel the same way) were to ask
for refunds on the basis that we never agreed to repurposing of
the funds?
I am in the same position. I feel a bit weird about it. I would not
have donated if it was just for IETF - I'm already mostly self-funded
on that. So I was a bit disappointed when this initiative turned out to
be an IETF fund.
Paul