Re: [ga] Letter from Lynn to Sheppard

[Jonathan Weinberg <weinberg@mail.msen.com>]

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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