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Re: ISOC and IETF budgets
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2009 10:17:12 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: John Levine <johnl () iecc com> Date: July 4, 2009 5:06:08 AM EDT To: dave () farber net Subject: Re: [IP] ISOC and IETF budgets
And how do we find out where ISOC is spending the rest of the money djf
It's in their budget, which is quite detailed: http://www.isoc.org/isoc/fin/ From a quick read, I see that ISOC's main problem is what to do with all the money that .org is gushing. Until 2005 their annual budget was never over $4M, but it's now $17M in 2009 heading for $20M in 2012. Their contribution to the IETF is under $2M, with the other $15M going to their traditional activities of supporting and enabling Internet wonderfulness. (I perhaps paraphrase a little here.) It's quite clear that if ISOC thought that the IETF's meeting fees were a problem, they could without a lot of trouble find another million bucks either to increase the current contribution, which would allow the meeting fees to drop by about half, or as scholarships or fee waivers to direct the subsidy to people who need or deserve it more. R's, John ------------------------------------------- Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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