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 SVP Architecture & Technology WorldCom 22001 Loudoun County Parkway, F2-4115 Ashburn, VA 20147 703 886 1690 (v806 1690) 703 886 0047 fax