On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Brian E Carpenter wrote: > Phil Hallam-Baker just suggested in the plenary that we could > easily raise funds by going round looking for sponsorship > from industry, $10k and $10k there. > > This ignores that this is *exactly* where ISOC's funds come > from, and those funds are largely used to support the IETF > (specifically the RFC Editor, plus a few smaller expenses that > would otherwise fall on the Secretariat budget). Also, why should any company pay another $10k when they already give employees to work on IETF standards during office hours? Henk ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Henk Uijterwaal Email: henk.uijterwaal@ripe.net RIPE Network Coordination Centre WWW: http://www.ripe.net/home/henk P.O.Box 10096 Singel 258 Phone: +31.20.5354414 1001 EB Amsterdam 1016 AB Amsterdam Fax: +31.20.5354445 The Netherlands The Netherlands Mobile: +31.6.55861746 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ That problem that we weren't having yesterday, is it better? (Big ISP NOC)