Re: [ga] Letter from Lynn to Sheppard

[Michael Froomkin <froomkin@law.miami.edu>]

actually, doesn't 100% of the money come from the end users ultimately?

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On Thu, 10 May 2001, Jonathan Weinberg wrote:

> At 01:31 AM 5/10/2001 -0400, Danny reprinted a letter from Stuart Lynn 
> responding to the proposal that ICANN provide funds for the DNSO:
> >[snip]
> >Certainly other questions arose. Since 90% of ICANN's discretionary
> >funds (that is, the portion not earmarked for a corresponding
> >expense) comes from certain DNSO constituencies, for ICANN to provide
> >financial support to the DNSO Secretariat would in effect be
> >returning funds already raised from those constituencies. In other
> >words, ICANN would be increasing its expenditures by $100,000 for
> >which there would be a corresponding increase of $90,000 contributed
> >from certain DNSO constituencies (the remaining 10% would essentially
> >come from ASO contributed funds). If those constituencies wish to
> >contribute $90,000 to the DNSO Secretariat, can they not choose to do
> >so directly within the DNSO budget framework?
> 
>          Lynn's letter does suggest a way forward:  Constituencies can 
> contribute to the DNSO budget in the same proportion that they contribute 
> to ICANN's base revenues directly.  Using the numbers from the proposed 
> 2001-2002 budget, that would translate roughly to:  60% from the 
> unsponsored gTLD registries; 26% from the ccTLDs; 10% from the registrars; 
> 3% from the sponsored TLD registries; and zippo from B&C, IPC, ISPCPC, and 
> NCDNHC.  The numbers would take some tweaking (that's rather too much for 
> the ccTLDs), but it's a start.
> 
> Jon
> 
> 
> Jonathan Weinberg
> weinberg@msen.com
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