Vint, Let me restate what I said at the open mike on Wednesday. I will reserve 8% or $1 USD, whichever is greater, per unit sold by my company for one year. At the end of that year I'll donate that money to the ISOC ear marked for the IETF. Its almost the same deal IMS/ISC offered had they gotten the .org bid. Be the change you wish to see. -rick On Sat, 15 Mar 2003, vinton g. cerf wrote: > 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 >