On 2020-05-02 00:41, Andrew Sullivan wrote: > Dear colleagues, > > I write in my role as the President and CEO of the Internet Society. > > Some of you will be aware that the Internet Society announced last > November a proposed transaction involving Public Interest Registry > (PIR) and Ethos Capital. This is relevant to the IETF because the > transaction would have yielded an endowment of over a billion dollars, > which would have supported ISOC (and hence the IETF) essentially > forever. Many of you will have heard by now that the Internet > Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has witheld its > consent to this transaction. I have written about it at > https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2020/05/our-work-to-make-the-internet-for-everyone-marches-on/. I am not sure why having IETF around "forever" is a good thing. Personally I'd rather the IETF that goes away when it has outlived its usefulness than stick around forever funded by the "endowment" while keeping a priviledge class of "standards professionals" around to produce paperwork. I'm not saying were there today but lets not bemoan the lack of funding that might greese those particular skids. You know what they say about the mother of all invention... Cheers Leif
