In article <734fb519-97e4-dde3-4425-77d7bee55234@xxxxxxxxx> you write: >You might want to chat with someone from the US about money >and politicians. Anyway, it's not at all clear to me that >a funded position is necessarily funded by the IETF or ISOC - >there may be opportunities to get support funding from an >outside charitable organization/foundation as a way to broaden >IETF leadership ... I suppose, although getting grants from ISOC would be a lot easier than from anyone else. I agree that paying ADs, beyond perhaps travel costs to the meetings, seems unwise. It's not the same thing, but people around ICANN say that paying their trustees is the worst thing they ever did. R's, John