>As near as I can make out, ICANN collects bucketloads of cash without >really having any idea why. The only rationale seemed to be to pay a >rather surprising large salary to the CEO. Agreed, except for the surprise part. The whole staff is paid impressively large amounts and has been as long as I've been watching ICANN. They seem to feel that their peer organizations for compensation purposes are investment banks rather than other non-profits. >Instead they are currently looking to raise even more money through >the sale of TLDs but last time I heard were curiously uninterested in >providing any material support to the root operators who would be >bearing the expense of supporting these new domains. If I were a root server operator, it would take an implausibly large amount of money to be worth the strings that ICANN would attach. A key reason that the DNS still works is that there's no root server contract, so the root operators can individually or jointly tell ICANN to pound sand if they don't care for the root zone that ICANN offers them. Hence ICANN is very cautions about changes. R's, John _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf