[ga] Re: Revenue Model

[Eric Dierker <eric@hi-tek.com>]

Sorry for leaving the long posts still fully attached but the discussion is
extremely relevant.  WHAT IS ICANN'S REVENUE MODEL?

The following have been denied due to lack of funding;
Translations,
Webcasting,
Outreach & Education,
GA chair funding,
continuing work group lists,
Increased sectretariat staffing

The following are being charged when presumably services to them should be free;
ccTLDs
Non-comercial constituency

In most cultures being to broke to pay your bills is a sign of irresponsibility or
laziness, what is ICANN's excuse?

Do we have a sponsorship staff?  Do we have an outreach and membership drive
committee?  Do we have grant writers?  Do we have coprorate partnerships for
advertising?  Have we asked anyone for underwriting?

Somebody needs to get serious here, this is not a teenage fan club.  There are
millions upon millions out there waiting to be spent on Non-profits.

The GA chair should be fully salaried along with a staff.  We need full time polling
booths to fulfill our charter.  If I were the Chairman I would be advising my CEO
get it done or hit the road.  Any non-profit CEO knows the preceding and if ICANN is
failing without doing the preceding then we need a new CEO real bad and real fast.

Sincerely,

Jeff Williams wrote:

> Kent and all,
>
> Kent Crispin wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 04:22:38PM -0700, Dave Crocker wrote:
> > [...]
> > > >For example, I believe that many
> > > >(perhaps most) of the interactions between ICANN and registrars concern
> > > >conflicts with registries and with other registrars.  Registrars that
> > > >register in more TLDs will have more such conflicts,
> > >
> > > Hmmm.  Good example.  However I'm suspecting that the impact of a conflict
> > > is so large a drain on ICANN that such events should, perhaps, be
> > > separately funded.  HOW to fund them is a different matter.
> >
> > I believe that there have been a substantial number of smaller
> > complaints, mostly about NSI.
> >
> > > Hmmm.  Perhaps the earlier suggestion that ICANN present some discussion of
> > > staff costs would be helpful.  I suggest that it not be a highly detailed
> > > accounting, but rather one that talks in terms of event categories that
> > > incur expenses related to registrars, and how much the average cost is for
> > > each such category.
> >
> > No question it would be useful, but there is a resource issue.  Which
> > would you rather see first: such an accounting, or some new TLDs in the
> > root?  :-)
>
>   It seems that you are suggesting that the ICANN staff resources are either
> unable, unwilling or inadequate to handle multi-tasking?  I would say
> that if the situation is that the ICANN BoD and staff is inadequate, than
> it would seem that there is a leadership problem within the ICANN
> leadership.  If however the situation indicates that the staff and/or
> BoD members are unwilling or unable to multi-task, possibly a house
> cleaning in staff, or even possibly BoD members is in order...
>
> >

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